Quotes About Decision-making

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

I don't like to guess. Just react. Some guys are guess hitters. I just could never do it. If you guess and guess wrong, you have no shot of hitting anything else.

While falling in love and getting married are good things, young people should think about the consequences as well, such as how their parents will react and the other problems that they will have to face.

When you react to things, that's when you get into trouble and it's tough to completely control a split-second reaction.

I have a couple moves I like to get to on the iso, and then after that it's just read and reaction.

Sport doesn't work on knee-jerk reactions.

The way I play, it's very much more a mental game than a physical game. I'm looking for space and where are players leaving space. Defensively, where are we at numerical disadvantages? Do I shift more to the left because they have more players on their right side? It's about reading the game before the game happens.

At the end of the day I'm a basketball player. I'm going to try and shoot more threes than mid-range or long twos or whatever. But if someone gives you a shot, you're a basketball player, you got to make reads and play.

In college, I was making a lot of presnap reads. It was much easier.

Getting through the reads in an efficient manner. I don't want to stay on receivers too long to where a bad decision is made.

When you're critical of yourself and your play, you just look at your reads, you look at how fast you can get the ball out.

I just got to be more aggressive. A lot of time, I just got to make the right reads. It's nothing major, just minor tweaks.

So, just make the right reads and the ball will always come back around to you. Taking the right shots and not forcing anything. Just let the game slow down and play free.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.

The president has to govern.

You have to govern like you've got a majority. It doesn't matter whether it's one seat, five or 10 seats.

I don't know how you can govern without ever compromising.