Quotes About Decision-making

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

If money is spent in the wrong way, then 'control' the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then 'decontrol' the spending.

Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Had Newton served on more faculty committees at Cambridge, his first law of motion might have read: A decisionmaking body at rest or in motion tends to stay at rest or in motion in the same direction unless acted upon by an outside force.

It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel—to others!—but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.

Try to remember the last time you felt extremely angry. Recall what you focused upon and how you acted. Were you able to reasonably consider good courses of action? Were you able to look at all your options? Did you make the best decision? Do you regret something you said or did? If you are like most people, you will see that you hardly think and behave at your best when you feel enraged.

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

VÄ›cí vlády je zasedat, nikoli mlátit. Vládne se hlavou a zadkem, nikoli pÄ›stí.

She lay awake at night, wondering what she ought to do. Life terrified her. She had a child's capacity for happiness, but also a child's fear, a child's inefficiency. When existence was a holiday, none could be more rapturously happy; but when there was business to be done, plans to be made, decisions taken, she was simply lost and terrified.

RzÄ…dzenie to sprawa stoÅ'ka, nie koÅ'ka. RzÄ…dzi siÄ™ przy pomocy mózgu i poÅ›ladków, nie pi??ci. - Aldous Huxley Nowy, wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat