Random Quotes:
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to
decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
-Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the rings.
Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it back
to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
-Gandalf the
Grey (Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring)
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
W. B. Yeats
You have hate, you have anger, but you dont use them.
Count Dooku: Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith
Adama: "Saul. What's happening to my ship?"
Saul: "I frakked things up and good. I made some
bad calls."
Adama: "I've done that."
Saul: "Not like these."
Adama: "Never had much use for people
who second-guessed my decisions. Especially if they've never held a command.
They don't understand the pressure. You make a call. It affects the lives of
thousands. And you have no one to turn to for backup."
Saul: "Well, you make it look easy."
Adma: "Well, now you know that's a lie now."
From the TV Serial, Battlestar Galactica. Conversation between second in command (Saul) and Captain Adama about things
that happened when Captain Adama was injured and unconscious. Saul's wife was
second-guessing his decisions.
What is right and what is wrong. When shall you make a decision and stick by it no matter what the consequences? Should you be hard, disciplined and unwavering or should you generalize Gandalf's words and "..not be too eager to deal out ...judgement".
Should you always wait to have all the facts in front of you before making a decision? Or what must you do if you need to make a decision and there is a chance it might be wrong? Or do we go ahead as Captain Adama says, "You make a call.... And you have no one to turn to for backup."
Is life all black and white? Or is there this whole range of gray? I think most things that one encounters in his/her life bear a shade of gray. Understanding this simple thing gives you a very broad outlook on life and allows you to interpret and understand the actions and behavior of others, but at the same time it can sometime make you extremely indecisive as you go over and over the facts trying to reason things out, playing one fact against the other.
Where is the answer?