Quotes About Decision-making

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Chess is a miniature version of life.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

The hand that signed the paper felled a city;Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;These five kings did a king to death.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

That's the thing," said Gat. "Everyone's always asking Harris about everything. Why should a grown woman have to ask her father to approve her wedding?

Some boyfriends?" "Three boyfriends." "Three boyfriends is a lot." Jule shrugged. "I couldn't decide.

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

Rather, members of collectivist cultures make decisions based on the counsel of elders—parents, aunts or uncles. The highest goal and virtue in this sort of culture is supporting the community. This makes people happy (makarios).

He sent messengers ahead to meet Alexander and offered him half his kingdom and his daughter in marriage, if only he would agree not to fight. 'If I were Alexander, I'd take it,' said Alexander's friend, Parmenios. 'And so would I, if I were Parmenios,' was Alexander's reply.

You mustn't put off what you think right," said Hamidullah. "That is why India is in such a plight, because we put off things.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.