Quotes About Decision-making

And when you're eighteen years old, it doesn't take that much provoking to get you to a place where you can't stop yourself

Why do people persist in an unsatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing. It's like the old proverbs say: "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know

When it comes to the areas of your life that matter most—your family, your faith, your health, your finances—you can't rely on anybody else to tell you what to do. It's great to get coaching from experts in the field, but you can't outsource the final decision. You can't give another person control over your destiny, no matter how sincere or skilled he or she may be.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings." —LORD CHESTERFIELD

if you make the decision to master your own mind, you'll be mentally equipped to handle whatever challenges come your way.

What are our beliefs designed for? They're the guiding force to tell us what will lead to pain and what will lead to pleasure.

Remember: Success truly is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment!

Fact. If you've failed to act in your financial world, it's partly because you're uncertain, you're unsure as to what is right or wrong and which approach will succeed or fail.

Success truly is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment!

My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now? I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes.

Marry Oswald, and be your own mistress." "I mean to be my own mistress without marrying Oswald, though I don't see my way quite clearly as yet. I think I shall set up a little house of my own, and let the world say what it pleases. I suppose they couldn't make me out to be a lunatic.

Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a faineant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

Lady Glencora in her time had wished to marry a man who had sought her for her money. Lady Chiltern in her time had refused to be Lady Fawn. Madame Goesler in her time had declined to marry an English peer.

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Indeed, yes; — or you will be known to all posterity as the fainéant government." "Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a fainéant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

In the meantime, the question could not even be discussed in the Cabinet, by agreement of the Prime Minister with the King.

To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry.

most of our decision making was shaped by somatic states related to punishment and reward. But

Field Marshal Brooke once wrote in his diary: 'It is astonishing how petty and small men can be in connection with questions of command.

How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, showing what kind of things a man chooses or avoids.

For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.

The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world.

I guess I'll just … play it by ear." She could have bitten her tongue off.