Quotes About Decisions

practically every individual has some advantage over all others because he possesses unique information of which beneficial use might be made, but of which use can be made only if the decisions depending on it are left to him or are made with his active cooperation.

Abstract moral decisions are much easier to make on paper or in a classroom in later centuries than in the midst of the dilemmas actually faced by those living in very different circumstances, including serious dangers.

One of the ways of understanding the consequences of economic decisions is to look at them in terms of the incentives they create, rather than simply the goals they pursue.

People who depict markets as cold, impersonal institutions, and their own notions as humane and compassionate, have it directly backwards. It is when people make their own economic decisions, taking into account costs that matter to themselves, and known only to themselves, that this knowledge becomes part of the trade-odds they choose, whether as consumers or producers.

Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentments among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.

That decades had to pass before a mistake with obvious negative consequences began to be corrected is one sign of the problems of decisions by third parties who pay no price for being wrong.

Why the transfer of…decisions from the individuals and organizations directly involved – often depicted collectively and impersonally as "the market" – to third parties who pay no price for being wrong should be expected to produce better results for society at large is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

identified as the premier "consumer advocate." Yet one of Nader's first published writings, in The Nation magazine in 1959, revealed the mind-set behind consumer advocacy when he said, "the consumer must be protected at times from his own indiscretion and vanity."28 Once again, the role of the anointed was to preempt other people's decisions, for their own good.

Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word "ask"—as in "We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But of course governments do not ask, they tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not "ask" for contributions. It takes.

Most of us are living as though life were happening to us rather than through us. We are not present to the fact that we are constantly generating our lives, as though they were great works of art. The tools we are given from which to create are our thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, actions, decisions, and words. Love is letting go of fear. —Gerald Jampolsky

Nem sempre há segurança nos números, e às vezes as circunstâncias influem muitas nas ações dos homens.

Better to go alone than to be badly accompanied. - Madame Dariaux

She lifts her head to meet my gaze. 'I'm not with you.' 'Sometimes circumstances can push you in the wrong direction and you end up making bad decisions. Sometimes decisions are taken out of your hands and fate intervenes.

I once told you that all actions have a cost, we simply must decide if they are worth paying. If you do not act in the best interest of your own happiness you will regret—and pay for it—for the rest of your life.

Their freedom to make choices means they are free to make wrong ones." -Luke Skywalker

one of the main purposes of our assesment is to find evidence of the children using these ideas to make decisions about their writing work each day, catching them in the act [of writing].

Do what you have to do, I guess. But sooner or later you're going to run out of mirrors to shoot at. Then what will you do?

Coming up with goals, updating them, and monitoring our progress in achieving them is less important, I believe, than the process of emotionally deciding what it is you want to do.

Lousy players, poor leverage. Said another way, business success is highly dependent on who you hire and who you don't fire.

Up until the mid-1970s, Mick and I were inseparable. We made every decision for the group. We'd get together and kick things around, write all our songs. But once we were split up, I started going my way, which was the downhill road to dopesville, and Mick ascended to jet land. We were dealing with a load of problems that built up, being who we were and what the sixties had been.

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

Wild oats make a mighty poor breakfast.