W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

You have to have an open mind about what you're getting into when you cast your lot with another human being - whether you're signing a lease together, buying a house together, walking down the aisle together, or having kids together.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

Lette me stande to the maine chance.

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.

When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.

When I imagined my life, I always thought I'd be in my mid-30s before I felt capable of marrying. But I suddenly found that I'd met somebody and I said, "Screw it. I'm not gonna sit here saying, 'Oh no, I'm not ready,' and regret not having done this later on and the possibility of not having this person around." I thought, I'll jump into it and we'll figure it out as we go along.

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.