Quotes About Decision-making

I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

The fact is, all education is directed to some end, and if parents don't make conscious decisions on what that end is, they are simply abdicating their role in setting the direction" of their children's lives.

Submitting to rules one doesn't understand is difficult, but it's a good way to counteract the carnal desire for personal independence. There may not be spiritual merit in choosing to eat two dishes instead of three at a meal, but the humility that comes with agreeing to submit to another's decision that one do so is transformative.

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The message: Sometimes you must be willing to burn all your other ships and grasp the helm of the one under your command. Doing so can stimulate the conviction and create the ownership necessary to get started on a new program of action that will help you rise above your circumstances.

Increase your negotiation power is by improving your walk-away alternative. An attractive BATNA is a strong argument with which to persuade the other side of the need to offer more.

Having recognized that a choice needs to be made, you can now turn to the full range of possibilities you should consider. These might be versions of the options already identified.

I find that most teams consider three to five possibilities in depth. On one aspect of this question, I am adamant: the team must produce more than one possibility. Otherwise, it never really started the strategy-making process because it didn't see itself as facing a choice. Analyzing a single possibility is not conducive to producing optimal action—or, in fact, any action at all.

As long as we see ourselves as rational beings who can think logically and make carefully reasoned decisions about our daily lives, then education indeed should be about the promotion of reasoned deliberation and the gaining of knowledge that will enhance our ability to reason. But suppose this conception we have of ourselves and our ability to reason logically is simply wrong?

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision-making, it is a burden, not a benefit. —William Pollard Historian

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

Mrs. Gibson has got her way all her life by leaving things to people's consciences.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

I'll talk to Mortimer and see what he thinks, and then get back to you tomorrow. In the meantime, you should really get to sleep and get those shared dreams going. Cale grimaced at the suggestion, and reminded him, She has a splitting headache, Bricker. I thought that was a married woman's complaint? Bricker responded quickly, and then laughed at his own joke as he hung up.

Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It is judicious arguing, struggling, confronting, urging, pushing and pulling in addition to comforting. It is leadership. The word 'judicious' means requiring judgment, and judgment requires more than instinct; it requires thoughtful and often painful decision making.

Un prince qui n'est pas sage par lui-même ne peut être bien conseillé

A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.

John looked up from where he was crouched beside the fire, feeding it little bites of driftwood, and said, 'We'd better decide who wants hot dogs and who wants hamburgers because we haven't got too much time.' Everybody began talking about food, and things were better. There's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Figuring that "it can't hurt" to intervene "before it gets worse," is an error that many parents who resort to tough love regret forever.

Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

our power of thin-slicing and snap judgment are extraordinary.but even the giant computer in our unconscious need a moment to do its work.