Quotes About Decision-making

Strategists who don't take time to think are just planners.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws...

Whatever happened to, 'Yes, Mum. Whatever you say, Mum'? Isabel demanded. When did you stop obeying instantly? … We haven't stopped obeying. We just think first now. - Ian

We haven't stopped obeying. We just think first now." Isabel slapped the boy.

Elves never make any major decision until they have thought the matter over for at least a year or two, gone round to all their friends and relatives and discussed the problem, done research, read tomes, consulted the sages. -And what happens then? - By then they've usually forgotten what it was they meant to do in the first place.

Tanis listens to his feelings. He does not suppress them, as does the knight, or hide them, as does the Plainsman. Tanis realizes that sometimes a leader must think with his heart and not his head." Raistlin glanced at her. "Remember that.

Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

Well, you know, that's good of you to say, but it's not always wise to make promises. There can be a lot more involved in keeping them than it seems at the time.

el sentido común es la más valiosa de las virtudes políticas.

La libertad, hija y madre de la racionalidad y del espíritu crítico, pone sobre los hombros del ser humano una pesada carga: tener que decidir por sí mismo qué le conviene y qué lo perjudica, cómo hacer frente a los innumerables retos de la existencia, si la sociedad funciona como debería ser o si es preciso transformarla.

Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.

And this shows that intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer.

Politics and nationalism often play far greater roles than conservation in the decision-making process.

The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being.

Measured steps" does not refer to steps that follow a rule or square. A good man, Confucius said, "is not slavish to a path others have trodden." This man is not even slavish to the path he himself has trodden, for experience would teach him that every occasion is different: the circumstances change, and they change even as the occasion unfolds. Thus, each time, he has to size up the situation and decide how to make his next move. He marks the line.

Deberían dejarse guiar más por la razón».

Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Quizás el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.