Quotes About Decision-making

She told me to try not to go to college with a boyfriend. She said she didn"t want me to be the girl crying on the phone with her boyfriend and saying no to things instead of yes

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

Meanwhile, everybody's looking through songbooks, trying to decide what songs to put in.

Margot's off shopping for new boots with her friend Casey, Daddy's at work, and Kitty and I are lazing about watching TV when my phone buzzes next to me. It's a text from Peter. "Movie tonight?" I text back yes, exclamation point. Then I delete the exclamation point for sounding too eager. Though without the exclamation point, the yes seems completely unenthused. I settle on a smiley face and press send before I can obsess over it further.

Two Jokes 1. A man is standing on the bank of a river when it suddenly begins to flood. His wife and his mistress are both being swept away. Who should he save? His wife. (Because his mistress will always understand.) 2. A man is standing on the bank of a river when it suddenly begins to flood. His wife and his mistress are both being swept away. Who should he save? His mistress. (Because his wife will never understand.)

She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.

Kant does not seem to envisage that we are torn between two courses of action for moral reasons. He makes no provisions for genuine moral dilemmas, where no option is unambiguously right or all options are equally problematic.

I considered sex work, but then I bent over and looked at my asshole in a mirror. Nobody was going to pay me for access to that thing.

to taking an action that could make life even worse. Psychologists call this "loss aversion." Research in cognitive

or she would choose the treatment option that the experts saw as "best," in this case taking the medication. But in the Dartmouth study, this was not what happened. When given clearer information, the patients weighed the risks and benefits

their preferences about starting medications for elevated blood pressure or a high cholesterol level. Although guidelines usually have fine print at the bottom asserting that the recommendations need to be molded to the preferences, values, and goals of the individual patient, we believe that this statement should be in large

Notice, there is a fundamental difference between providing a biological explanation of why we are inclined to accept a given moral principle and showing that we should accept it. If the ultimate explanation is biological, it is far from obvious that such principles truly obligate us to follow them.

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

Often, indeed, individuals are most capable of deciding on the best provider of services. But not always, and in some domains choice is particularly fraught. In healthcare, for example, choices pertaining to physicians or hospitals are made either when patients are healthy and disinclined to bother with medical matters, or when they are sick and therefore more anxious about their decisions, which diminishes their ability to process complex and often conflicting metrics.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

it was important to figure out what things were worth doing---and then to just do those things, don't do any of the other ones. People will try to convince you, always they will try to convince you to do things you should on no account do. Negotiating these terrible pathways full of bad advice---it is the principal danger of youth. That and suicide.

Adrian: "I've made my position clear, Mr. Skerry. It's not my job to protect people from their own stupidity." Resonator: "And I like to give hand granades to babies ... let's be friends!?

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

No nos sorprende cuando los dirigentes políticos y los ejecutivos de los negocios toman decisiones que parecen beneficiarnos y que al mismo tiempo son nocivas y peligrosas para la comunidad . Desde luego, si el egoísmo es un pilar en la ética practica contemporánea. No parecen saber que la avaricia (y la sumisión) vuelve a la gente estupida, aun a lo que atañe a su verdadero interés, al interés de sus propias vidas y las vidas de sus parejas y sus hijos.

The idea of the responsible and well informed citizen who participates in the important decisions of the community is the central concept of democracy. But due to the quantitative increase in population and to the influence of methods of mass suggestion, the substance of democracy is weakening.

FaÅŸizm ve benzeri hareketler (ki, bunlar?n isimlerini onlar ortaya ç?k?p geliÅŸtikten sonra koyar?z ) ancak, hem ferdi ve hem de toplumsal hayat? etkileyen kararlar? verme noktas?nda yayg?n bir pasifliÄŸin olduÄŸu ve insanlar?n kat?l?mc? olmad??? toplumlarda yeÅŸerirler. (Hayat? Sevmek)

ÄŒlovÄ›k nedÄ›lá vždycky, co je správné, synu, Ã…â"¢ekl. Dokonce ani když to ví. V tom nÄ›kdy bývá kouzlo života. ChápeÅ¡?

Gribu doties proj?m, bet kaut kas mani spiež palikt. Ja cilv?kam rodas iesp?ja moc?t pašam sevi, tad vi?š to vis l?ti gar?m nelaiž.

German people, he said, would follow Hitler with absolute loyalty "provided they are allowed to have a share in the making and carrying out of decisions, provided every word of criticism is not immediately interpreted as malicious, and provided that despairing patriots are not branded as traitors." The time had come, he proclaimed, "to silence doctrinaire fanatics.