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Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

Robin Marantz Henig

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Robin Marantz Henig
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The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.

Richard Arnold Epstein

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

Michelle Sagara

I never regret making a decision.

Emmanuel Adebayor

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.

Tom Reiss

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers

Emotions are what drives everyone. You get up in the morning and go do something because the emotion drives you to it.

Paul Dalio

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

Fernando Pessoa

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

Aristotle

Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.

Carol Channing

Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.

Stephenie Meyer

Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.

Mike Tyson

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

Bill Crawford

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

William O'Rourke

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

Bill Ackman

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

Hank Green

I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

Barack Obama

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