Quotes About Decision-making

Not getting enough sleep has assorted bad effects on mind and body. Hidden among these is the weakening of self-control and related processes like decision making. To get the most out of your willpower, use it to set aside enough time to sleep. You'll behave better the next day—and sleep more easily the next night.

People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves

As far as my career or my university or my hometown went, I was on the bus out of town at the right time because I knew to walk away before I was pushed out.

He's old enough to know what's right, but young enough not to choose it. He wise enough to win the world, but fool enough to lose it.

He's old enough to know what's right, but young enough not to choose it. He's wise enough to win the world, but fool enough to lose it.

For the most time I've followed instinct rather than intelligence, and this has resulted in a modicum of happiness.

The only problems that have simple solutions are simple problems. The only managers that have simple problems have simple minds. […] Complex problems do not have simple solutions.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

When you have never done a thing before and that thing is not simply and clearly right or wrong, you frequently do not know if it is a cruel thing, you just go ahead and do it. Maybe later you'll be able to determine whether you acted cruelly. Too late, of course, but at least you'll know.

Once we have a constitution and relevant legislative institutions in place, working out details may then be facilitated, although it need not be very democratic.

Prudence is the foundation of all true statesmanship; in its political application, prudence is the application of principles to particular circumstances.

La elección es creativa y, por lo tanto, impredecible. Al toparse con una elección predecible, ya no se trata propiamente de una elección.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

The spaces we refer to as public are assumed to be male, and for centuries men have excluded women from the public where all the key decisions relating to power are deliberated and implemented.

Ionako sam se još od djetinjstva bojao razbacivati sre?om i želio sa?uvati dio i za budu?nost... To je bio razlog zbog kog sam puno prilika i propustio, ali uvijek sam se ustru?avao od toga da traže?i previše preplašim sre?u.

Fakat içimizde, bizim "ahlak" taraf?m?zla hiçbir ?ekilde münasebete geçmeyerek hadiseleri muhakeme eden, neticeler ç?karan ve tedbirler alan bir "hesabi" taraf?m?z vard? ve lafta de?ilse bile fiilde daima o galip ç?k?yor ve onun dedi?i oluyordu.

If you are incapable of transforming yourself, where is the question of you bringing up your child? So is it not better that you think it over before giving birth to a child, whether you are capable or not, whether in this life you need it or not? Isn't it?

The choice is always before you: to respond consciously to the present; or to react compulsively to it.

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

Just as CEOs can't look away when social issues clash with their values, employees can't pretend that whatever its leadership decides to do is above their pay grade. If leadership won't act on a company's values, employees at every level need to hold them accountable.

Diverting a river is easier than facing the truth; Cyrus did not want to acknowledge the fact that his horse would not have drowned if he had not forced it to try and cross the river.

This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.

No lo hagas, si no conviene; no lo digas si no es verdad.

52. You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.