Quotes About Decision-making

The only certainty, whether spoken or not, is that the doctors, nurses, and technicians are fighting not only death but their own uncertainties as well. In most resuscitations, those can be narrowed down to two main questions: Are we doing the right things? and, Should we be doing anything at all?

Since human beings first began to write, they have recorded their wish for an idealized ending some call the "good death," as if any of us can ever be sure of it or have any reason to expect it. There are pitfalls of decision-making to be sidestepped and varieties of hope to seek, but beyond that we must forgive ourselves when we cannot achieve some preconceived image of dying right.

Already there was a contest, always kept under the surface, between the father and son. It concerned ways of doing things, decisions to be made. As yet, the son always surrendered. It is like that in a family, little isolated groups formed within the larger group, jealousies, concealed hatreds, silent battles secretly going on…

We're so deeply conditioned to believe that there's a right or wrong choice that when it comes time to make even minor decisions in life, we're scared of messing up.

Whether it's a major decision like accepting a job, or a minor decision like what to order at a restaurant, people struggling with anxiety often find themselves frozen like a deer in the headlights when it comes time to decide.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. Probably the reason why that was not the case this time is because Japan is facing an increasingly challenging situation.

Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.

As long as the nation permits doctors to run the show, that

Unless nominees are chosen democratically, with the widest possible participation in the process, nothing else really matters.

A CRASH COURSE FOR SUCCESS • Play to win and not to lose. • Learn from other people's mistakes. • Associate with people of high moral character. • Give more than you get. • Don't look for something for nothing. • Always think long term. • Evaluate your strengths and build on them. • Always keep the larger picture in mind when making a decision. • Never compromise your integrity.

If we adjudicate an operator's understanding of an unfolding situation against our own truth, which includes knowledge of hindsight, we may learn little of value about why people saw what they did, and why taking or not taking action made sense to them.

Studying and enhancing the "information environment" for decision-making, as Rasmussen and Svedung put it, can be a good place to start.46 This information environment, after all, is where assessments are made, decisions are shaped, in which local rationality is created. It is the place where the social and the technical meet; where risk itself is constructed.

But listen, the day one decides to take the reins of one's own life into one's own hands

Boredom helps one to make decisions.

It's a good thing when you don't dare do something if you don't think it's right. But it's not good when you think something's not right because you don't dare do it.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that?

Basilevitch persuaded Cruyff to let him invest his hard-earned money in a variety of ventures, the most disastrous of which was a pig farm.70 Looking back in 2015, the victim laughed at himself: "Who could imagine that Johan Cruyff had gone into pig-rearing? I ended up saying to myself, 'Ditch the pigs. Your thing is football.' "71

Next time I want to do something nice, slap me.

Guys are control freaks and hate when other people know what's best for them

Get a grip, Dad. I'm not going to do anything you wouldn't do at my age.' He stands up and says, 'That's it. You're canceling this date.