Quotes About Decision-making

when chance is involved, people's thought processes are often seriously flawed.

Our subliminal brain is invisible to us, yet it influences our conscious experience of the world in the most fundamental of ways: how we view ourselves and others, the meanings we attach to the everyday events of our lives, our ability to make the quick judgment calls and decisions that can sometimes mean the difference between life and death, and the actions we engage in as a result of all these instinctual experiences.

emotions differ from thought and action: they are an automatic function. But a man does choose his emotions—ultimately. He does it by virtue of his ability to think, and if necessary to rethink an issue, rejecting an invalid idea at the root of some feeling and replacing it by a new conclusion.

Are people innately altruistic? is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.

Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college. Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. If it weren't for my horse... as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go — I wouldn't have spent that year in college, which is a degree-granting institution. Don't think about that too long, or BLOOD will shoot out your NOSE!

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.

Cellad?n fikri ÅŸöyleydi: Gövdesi olmayan bir kafa kesilemezdi, zaten daha önce böyle bir ÅŸey yapmak zorunda kalmam??t? ve bu yaÅŸtan sonra da yapmaya niyeti yoktu. Kral'?n fikri de ÅŸöyleydi: Kafas? olan her ÅŸeyin kafas? kesilebilirdi ve bu konuda daha fazla saçmalaman?n anlam? yoktu. Kraliçe'nin fikri ise ÅŸöyleydi: EÄŸer bir dakika içinde bir sonuca var?lmazsa, oradaki herkesin kafas? kesilecekti.

Me dirías, por favor, qué camino debería tomar desde aquí?" "Eso depende en gran parte de a dónde quieres ir", dijo el Gato.

Sino sabes a dónde vas, cualquier camino te llevará allí

Quick answers often lead to quick regrets.

Do right. It's what Ling's mother would say. But in times like these, how could you know what was right? Ling sat on the steps for a while longer, watching Alma's champagne-colored dress swish down the street. Only when Alma rounded the corner did Ling let out the chocking sob. Good-bye, she whispered. Nearby, the bird watched her intently.

Every leader has blood on her hands.

Can we agree to this point? But once human beings have free will, they also have the ability to make choices—and commit evil. Thus, this very good thing, free will, allows the possibility of evil into our fine world.

If you did the wrong things for the right reasons, did that make the wrong things right? Or did that just mean you had turned your back on finding a more right way? And once you justified violence, did that make it easier the next time and the next, until you'd become the villain of your own story?

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

I did learn fairly early that the best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to. The best leaders also know when they are wrong, and are capable of pulling themselves out. And the best leaders enable others to make decisions for them. Let me rephrase that. Much ofLinux's success can be attrib­uted to my own personality flaws: 1) I'm lazy; and 2) I like to get credit for the work of others.

It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur, when one only needs to talk or write about it. But the man, who has to act is constantly faced with the necessity, if he wishes to deal justly with one person, of being unjust to somebody else.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.