Rick Riordan Quotes

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

I’m afraid you’re going to have to make a choice.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

What would you do if you had to choose?

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

What happens next is up to you.

As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a lot of denial, and denial is always dangerous even if all of your intentions are good and all your preparations are good. When you make a choice you're denying an infinite number of other choices.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.