Quotes About Decision-making

You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.