Quotes About Decision-making

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

That's the last thing on Earth you should think about... There's just a whole lot of things that aren't going to work for you. Figure out what they are and avoid them like the plague. And one of them is bitcoin... It is total insanity.

I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.

Our best theories of people, presented on their own terms and without reference to underlying particles and forces, leave plenty of room for human choice.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

Economics is the science that studies how people and societies make decisions that allow them to get the most out of their limited resources.

We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path to toward the life we feel we ought to be living?

A shortsighted person can do little more than follow the road she's on; someone blessed with clear sight sees all the turnoffs she could take—and numerous alternate paths besides, running parallel to the one beneath her feet. One is only lost when one has some perception, no matter how dim, that there is somewhere else one should be.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right. Even while you are asking, you discover all at once what you hadn't been able to find out in three whole years.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn't use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your trust in science, that's what you should do.

If there's no ethically correct solution, act irrationally.

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.

their foolish insistence that any problem can be solved by the proper amount of applied group-think.

Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)

Mindfulness ?2. Choices ?3. Intention ?4. Focus ?5. Repetition ?6. Emotion ?7. Belief

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Sometimes doing the right thing was hard… and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.

She kissed the top of his head and stroked his back. "If, a year from now, you were stuck on the tracks and a train was coming, what would you regret? Not taking a road trip to the Grand Canyon? Or not spending that year with Emma?" He gave a short laugh. "Trust me, Emma is the train." "That's love, honey." She squeezed a little harder and he felt some of the crappiness he'd been feeling slip away.

Richard, might I ask you something? We've talked tonight of what you must do, of what you can do, of what you ought to do.But we've said nothing of what you want to do.Richard, do you want to be King?" At first, she thought he wasn't going to answer her. But as she studied his face, she saw he was turning her question over in his mind, seeking to answer it as honestly as he could. "Yes," he said at last. "Yes...I do.

Mally likes to have boundaries. She likes to know that making a choice means she has to give up something else. She likes to think that actions have consequences. It makes her feel like the world makes sense.

But life has a way of teaching us that letting feelings run the show leads to all kinds of bad stuff.