Quotes About Decision-making

We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

You have to be more picky with jobs when you're at school because you can't miss crucial times and put your education in jeopardy for things that aren't worth it at the time.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Your uncle Lawrence is a very moral man. He knows, in his heart, what is right. And he'll do it, no matter what people say of him. I nodded. But how do we know when we're doing the right thing, Father? He drew up the horse's reins in front of our house. We don't always, Ebie. Answers don't come easily. At least they never have, to me. I've done many a wrong thing in my time. But I've always tried to make up for it.

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

Una elección es cosa muy seria, o al menos debería serlo, y cada uno debería votar según su propia conciencia y dejar que el vecino haga lo mismo.

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . .

It means, of course, that when you don't know what to do, when you don't know whether your character would do this or that, you get quiet and try to hear that still small voice inside. It will tell you what to do.

I have to. I've changed my mind so often." Neither of us spoke for a minute. "That's the worst reason to do something," I said.

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

You have balanced power with wisdom, despite your rash acts.

Are you certain we're going in the right direction?" He let out an irritated growl. "I'm not certain of anything. I was going on instinct." "Instinct being that you do the opposite of what I suggest?

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

The thing about caller ID is," Red said, more or less to himself, "it seems a little like cheating. A person should be willing to take his chances, answering the phone.

The choreography always requires that each man make decisions based not on what's best for him, but on what's best for the group. If everyone does that, most of the group survives. If no one does, most of the group dies. That, in essence, is combat.

You can be passive and not make a decision that may save your life," he says, "or you can accept death as a possibility. That was the crux of the whole thing.

Do not suffer your good nature . . . to say yes when you ought to say no

Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt