Quotes About Decision-making

es muy probable que el último cuarto del siglo en curso pase a la historia como la Gran Guerra de Independencia del Espacio. Lo que sucedió en su transcurso fue que los centros de decisión y los cálculos que fundamentan sus decisiones se liberaron consecuente e inexorablemente de las limitaciones territoriales, las impuestas por la localidad.

I]n consumer culture choosing and freedom are two names of the same condition; and treating them as synonymous is correct at least in the sense that you can abstain from choosing only by at the same time surrendering your freedom.

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do

Quote by Robert, a garçon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves—though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave.

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The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.

Can I give her a choice about when to do something, rather than insisting upon "right now." ("Do you want to take your bath before your TV show or right after?")

Can I offer a choice about how something is done? ("Do you want to take your bath with your doll or your boat?")

And just as in life, if a man imagines himself on his deathbed and then works back through the years of his life, he will make better decisions along the way, knowing the end. Or at the very least, hell spend his time more wisely.

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

One would never imagine that a good pot or shoe could result from intuition alone; why then assume that the more complex task of directing one's life could be undertaken without any sustained reflection on premises or goals?

Never be prime minister at the start of a war, Nessie [..] The man that lead you into it isn't the one to lead you out of it.

The Key to a healthy no is to remember the yes that the no is making space for.

These are classic insiders—the fussy traditionalists who operate close to the center and seldom break with convention. In such traditionalistic organizations, intelligence and decision making tend to be drawn out from the reservoir of inherited wisdom. These inherited ideas are seen to be inviolable, even sacrosanct.

Decision making is such a delicate and complex mental process. If causality is only approximate, we don't know where the tipping point lies, where the decision is so fragile that it appears without definite cause.

Without me, things would have been different. If the fat man hadn't crushed the watch, if I hadn't left it in the test chamber. . . Am I to blame, then? Or the fat man? Or my father, for choosing my career? Which of us is responsible? Who makes the world?

As a law graduate, this allowing of intention to trump outcome rings alarm bells for me. Imagine if while driving your car, intending to bring a friend to the hospital as quickly as possible, you hit and killed a child. You would not expect to tell that story to friends and have them respond, 'Great, so good of you to get your friend some help. Well done – and no matter about the child, you didn't mean to kill it.

Become a master of your intellect as a charioteer masters his horses and you will realize it is not about the war, it is not about fighting or not fighting, it is not about winning or losing, but it is about taking decisions and discovering the truth about yourself. When you do this, there will be no fear, there will be no ego; you will be at peace, even in the midst of what the deluded call war.

The Gita itself values subjectivity: after concluding his counsel, Krishna tells Arjuna to reflect on what has been said, and then do as he feels (yatha-ichasi-tatha-kuru). Even

Probably we each could point to times in our own lives when if we had listened to someone's advice, we, too, could have avoided many problems.