Quotes About Decision-making

For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.

He merely slid into the matter through his inability to make definite judgments. He could say No! neither to man nor woman; borrower and temptress alike found him tender-minded and pliable. Indeed he seldom made decisions at all, and when he did they were but half-hysterical resolves formed in the panic of some aghast and irreparable awakening.

No,' she said; 'I'd never marry again. I've got my two children and I want myself for them. I like you--I like all clever men, you more than any--but you know me well enough to know that I'd never marry a clever man--' She broke off suddenly.

Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.

wisest leaders try to understand history, evaluate the larger forces at work, and determine how much room there is for human action.

The political climate in Washington always pushes policymakers toward being "tough" rather than "soft"—which is a dangerous way to frame international affairs. The real question is, can they be smart rather than stupid?

America has become what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy.

better to supremely not act than to act spottily, inadequately and in vain, like the superfluous, inane, vast majority of men.

De modo que parece prudente fijarnos bien en lo que hacemos y procurar adquirir un cierto saber vivir que nos permita acertar. A ese saber vivir, o arte de vivir si prefieres, es a lo que llaman ética.

A veces darle demasiadas vueltas a lo que uno va a hacer nos paraliza.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

As far as radio goes, it really isn't what listeners get; it's how they get it. Social media gives us new and fun ways to stay more directly connected to people who listen to us, and it also helps us make decisions faster.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

There's so many adjustments off of every route that, if you're able to understand the defense, then you can play that much faster, because you don't even know pre-snap, sometimes, exactly what you're gonna need to do.

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.

You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.

As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.

Markets and science show that some fields of human endeavour work much better than political decision-making. I think we could do much much better if we will face our problems honestly.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'