Quotes About Decisions

We, the PR consultants, have in essence turned from consultants into decision-makers, because now decisions have to be made instantaneously. Just because of that one change, the PR business is totally different from what it used to be.

Nem mindig rajtunk múlik, milyen véget érnek a dolgok.

Sometimes it felt like parenting amounted to a series of questionable decisions, one after another.

Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it's the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it's the choices we don't make.

It was the end and he couldn't decide if the truth had been worth telling. All he knew was that it was time to go. Because sometimes doing what was best for someone you loved was more important than taking care of yourself. Because sometimes the things that were never meant to last were what ended up mattering the most. Because sometimes even a door that's always been open has to close.

Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted!

We should be afraid. Not of intelligent machines. But of machines making decisions that they do not have the intelligence to make. I am far more afraid of machine stupidity than of machine intelligence. Machine stupidity creates a tail risk. Machines can make many many good decisions and then one day fail spectacularly on a tail event that did not appear in their training data. This is the difference between specific and general intelligence.

my dad goes along with it because no one in my family has ever pretended that my mother doesn't make all the decisions.

Remember, whoever holds the purse strings for the wedding has the control. Don't accept a cent from anyone else if possible. Then you and him will be the only ones calling the shots. All the decisionswill be yours and the rest of them will just have to go along with it.

What only a wise person realized was that the strongest of women sometimes simply needed to have someone else make the decisions for them behind closed doors. Not always. Not every day. Sometimes.

Because social decisions are about more than just calculations, problems will always ensue if we use data alone to make decisions that involve social and value judgments.

We can learn to make better decisions about the downstream effects of technology so that we don't cause unintentional harm inside complex social systems.

I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

But many, perhaps most, did resist, and resistance assumed many forms, covert and overt, sporadic and continuous, direct and indirect. It is probably a mistake to think of resistance as a continuum, ranging from "sassing massa" in the lower register to becoming maroons and organizing revolution in the highest. First of all, individuals who experienced any substantial length of life may have made any number of decisions, and over time they would have exhibited various

Employ hindsight but humbly, remembering that life and death decisions are made by leaders in real-time, and not by historians in retrospect.

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

Strategic direction encompasses mission, vision, and strategy. Mission is about what will be achieved, vision is about why people should feel motivated to perform at a high level, and strategy is about how resources should be allocated and decisions made to accomplish the mission. If you keep in mind the what, the why, and the how, you won't get lost in debates about what a mission is, what a vision is, and what a strategy is.

Mission is about what will be achieved, vision is about why people should feel motivated to perform at a high level, and strategy is about how resources should be allocated and decisions made to accomplish the mission.

The most important decisions you make in your first 90 days will probably be about people.

How does your boss like to communicate? How often? What kinds of decisions does he want to be involved in, and when can you make calls on your own? Does your boss arrive at the office early and work late? Does he expect others to do the same?