Quotes About Decision-making

I have learnt not to ignore instincts. While making a film, when your gut feels that you are going wrong, please take that seriously.

You either back your instincts or you hold off - and you're more likely to back your instincts if you're confident.

If you trust your instincts and it doesn't turn out right, OK. But if you compromise and defer to what somebody else is telling you and it doesn't work out, that feeling gnaws at me.

One of the most important things for a CEO is not to get insulated.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

In football we need to be intelligent because sometimes you can have a lot of things but you need to know when to pass or stay with the ball, when you go to the counter-attack.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.

I don't think it's such a bad thing to have internal debate between coach and leading players.

Only you really know what you need. Only you can make it happen for yourself. Only you can decide what is good for you, what is bad for you, what can make your life better, or what will make it worse. Be an advocate for yourself. Stand up for what you need. If you don't manage your stress, who will? A best friend should know you like he knows himself. Be your own best friend, and that's exactly what you'll have.

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for, anyway?"

Choose your own way. Do not follow me, or anyone else.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Policy is not that complicated! One only needs a clear conscience and therefore, a bad memory...

Sometimes when the poop hits the fan we should block it and run, sometimes we should haul off and knock it for a loop back at the spinning blades. Wisdom is knowing two things. One is which time is which. The other is that no matter what you do you're gonna get crap on your hand.

My fault? It could be. So much was my fault, the result of my actions or decisions. Sabina

foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. —E. O. Wilson

What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.