Mark Twain Quotes About Decisions

• You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Heart, Law

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.164, Createspace Independent Pub

• Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

  Mark Twain

  Decision, Bad Decision, Good Decision

• A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Two, Perfection

• Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Support You, Goal

• I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Fall, Effort

  Mark Twain “Carnival of Crime in Ct”, Library of Alexandria

• Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

  Mark Twain

  Couple, Whales, Decision

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