Quotes About Decision-making

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

now with his peace offer on the table, it would be even more imperative that the United States not choose sides, in order to preserve its moral leadership over the planet.

Rather, it was more beneficial, and ultimately more rational, than ones put together by politicians or rulers, who are themselves creatures of their own passions and whims.

Having seen how the democratic sausage was made, Plato was in no mood to sit at the feast.

Je moet er toch niet bij nadenken hoeveel afslagen een mens op zijn pad misloopt omdat hij eerder naar zijn twijfels luistert dan naar zijn impuls.

Redeneren wordt je dood. Het is overleven op intuitie of anders niet. Geloof me, bij een leven als dit moet je niet te lang stilstaan.

Paco Montegrifo was the sort of man who decides, as soon as he's old enough to make such decisions, that black socks are strictly for chauffeurs and waiters and opts instead for socks of only the darkest navy blue.

ser jefe consistía en eso: la capacidad de hacer planes y de convencer a otros para que los ejecutaran, aunque eso los llevase a la muerte.

Como ve,la incertidumbre corresponde al jugador, no a las reglas... De las infinitas trayectorias posibles de una bala, sólo una ocurre en la realidad.

No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.

Success in investing comes not from being right but from being wrong less often than everyone else.

Kahneman notes in his book on investor psychology, experience is not a very good teacher in investing and markets. 2 As human beings, we often extract the wrong lessons from past successes, don't learn enough from our failures, and sometimes delude ourselves into remembering things that never happened.

Whenever serious sickness or injury strikes and your body or mind breaks down, the vital questions are the same: What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?

En tiempos de crisis, el voto, que debería ser racional, se vuelve pasional

If you are smart enough to add letters to math problems, you're smart enough to dig your own grave.

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

A Muslim girl does not make her own decisions or seek control. She is trained to be docile. If you are a Muslim girl, you disappear, until there is almost no you inside you. In Islam, becoming an individual is not a necessary development; many people, especially women, never develop a clear individual will. You submit: that is the literal meaning of the word islam: submission. The goal is to become quiet inside, so that you never raise your eyes, not even inside your mind. But

A Muslim girl does not make her own decisions or seek control. She is trained to be docile. If you are a Muslim girl, you disappear, until there is almost no you inside you. In Islam, becoming an individual is not a necessary development; many people, especially women, never develop a clear individual will. You submit: that is the literal meaning of the word islam: submission. The goal is to become quiet inside, so that you never raise your eyes, not even inside your

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

If there's one thing I've learned it's what a woman can do to a man's common sense. Admittedly, I never thought it would happen to you.

And for matter of policy and government, that learning, should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable.