Quotes About Decision-making

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

Like Putin, from his early days in power Erdo?an created a loyal web of vassals, and gradually transformed the decision-making process for matters concerning the nation's finances until every economic transaction, from the most micro to the most macro, was in some way connected to him.

As I turned to the chapters dedicated to operations in North Vietnam, the ridiculous gave way to the absurd. I couldn't discern whether the enemy was the North Vietnamese or the U.S. Navy. The enemy might just as easily have been the State Department or even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They all seemed to have a voice in the ROE, and the tone of the voice was seldom in favor of winning the war, defeating the enemy, or even ensuring the fighter pilot's chances of survival.

Whenever you hold a three-card sequence or longer at the head of your suit you always lead the top card of the sequence. The top of a sequence rule takes precedence over the fourth-highest rule.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

If a client insists on getting a recommendation from you, always give him at least two alternatives so that he still has to make choice.

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Sometimes Christians speak of each decision of their lives as though they were launching a moon-shot where a single miscalculation would send the capsule into a trackless void. Even space scientist do better than that, correcting the flight of their space-probes by radioed signals. God does much better. He knows that we are often incapable of distinguishing trivial decisions from momentous ones, and that we are foolish and imperceptive. He knows---- and keeps us in his hand.

Así funciona la cabeza de mamá: los hombres en general, y nuestro padre en particular, llevan las riendas de las cosas. Pero en el fondo, en la penumbra, las mujeres disponemos de una sanción final, de una palabra inapelable. Si el clan por algún motivo está en peligro y los hombres, en su ceguera consuetudinaria, en su simpleza ramplona, no advierten el riesgo, somos nosotras las que debemos intervenir.

No sé qué hacer, ni sé qué pensar, no sé qué sentir. Y sin embargo estoy decidida a seguir sintiendo, pensando y haciendo. No voy a detenerme al costado de mi vida hasta tener las cosas claras. Soy tan obsesiva y tan insegura que se me puede ir la vida decidiendo. No voy a correr ese riesgo.

Would you do it if you were me? If I was you I'd do whatever you would do.

It is not enough to fill your juries, your advisory panels, with creative artists. You must put us in positions of policy control.

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].

Through forty years of impatience, Nicholas still could not make up his mind which was more annoying, the guile of straight women or the wiles of gay men.

When the horse is dead, get off.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

If your husband and a lawyer were drowning and you had to choose, would you go to lunch or to a movie?

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

Let the counsel of thine own heart stand.

Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.