Quotes About Decision-making

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

Échecs (jeu des). Image de la tactique militaire. Tous les grands capitaines y étaient forts. Trop sérieux pour un jeu, trop futile pour une science.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Don't let people make mistakes. At least play the devil's advocateand explain why they might be making one.

Don't fear the impact of quitting something. What you do after you quit is more important than the fact that you quit. Do you reboot, remake, and restart, or do you give up?

Grant, for reasons perhaps partly inborn and partly acquired, rarely revisited choices once made. He planned according to the information at hand; he prepared for all reasonable contingencies; he decided what to do as events unfolded. Then, calm in the conviction that he could have done no more, he accepted what destiny delivered.

In this scenario, complexity and change may be driven by female choice.83

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. —BARBARA TUCHMAN

And if he did not always like what he had to do...he never forgot what the alternative would have been. Not only in Argentina, leading the unhappy existence of a refugee, but also in the courtroom in Jerusalem, with his life as good as forfeited, he might have still preferred—if anybody had asked him—to be hanged as Obersturmbannführer a.D. (in retirement) rather than living out his life quietly and normally as a traveling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Company.

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

Man may be evil or good, that wasn't the issue. The issue was that man rarely considered the consequences of his actions. In short, man was often just plain stupid.

Man may be evil or good, that wasn't the issue. The issue was that man rarely considered the consequences of his actions.

Jessica Culver sat in her family's kitchen, in the very seat she had sat in innumerable times as a child. She should have known better. She should have thought it through, should have come prepared for any occurrence. But what had she done instead? She had gotten nervous. She had hesitated. She had stopped for a drink in the bar below his office. Stupid, stupid.

My heroes were always a combination of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock. You have to be ruled by logic, but if you're only ruled by logic and you don't touch your emotions, you will make the wrong instinctive call.

Everything we do is very, very touched by what happens in Washington.

As a quarterback, you've got a huge responsibility: You're touching the ball every single play. You have such a big impact on deciding the game, just in your decision-making and how you are with the football and your fundamentals.

With the quarterback position, because you're touching the ball every single snap, you want to make a play and you just have to guard against that. It's about making the plays that come to you, not necessarily chasing after plays.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.

I've seen Coach Saban over the years have to make a lot of tough decisions, and there's not one decision he doesn't make that he doesn't bounce ideas off the staff. To me, that's invaluable.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

In an effort to devote more time, energy and focus to fewer projects, I've had to make some tough decisions, and one such decision was 'retiring' from 'Speakeasy.'

It's a tough job being a politician.