Quotes About Decision-making

The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

Upon my eighteenth birthday I was given three choices: 1. Join the church, and live at home. 2. Move out and live on my own. 3. Move into the single men's home.

Holiness is not some nebulous thing. It's a series of right choices. You needn't wait for some holy cloud to form around you. You'll be holy when you choose not to sin. You're already free from the power of sexual immorality; you are not yet free from the habit of sexual immorality, until you choose to be—until you say, "That's enough! I'm choosing to live purely!

The more responsibility you take for your choices, the less regret they're likely to cause you.

Think beforehand about afterwards — whatever you decide to do, think ahead about the consequences.

Successful nemawashi enables change to be the result of consensus among the parties.

The lesson was clear: they should have voted for Clay even if he was a slave owner. That would not have been evil, because a tree was known by the fruit it bore. "If the fruit of electing Mr. Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, could the act of electing have been evil?

Instead of asking "What is the 'right' or 'wrong' thing to do?" the practitioner asks, "What is the wisest and most compassionate thing to do?

If…there is a conflict between structure and strategy, the structure will win.

Do not try to predict the effects your actions will have, because you can't. Instead, encourage people to adapt their actions to realize the overall intention as they observe what is actually happening. Give them boundaries which are broad enough to take decisions for themselves and act on them.

In a matrix structure of the kind prevalent today, thinking two levels up also has the benefit of helping to resolve the dilemmas the matrix naturally creates. The "next level up" may well be ambiguous. Two bosses might point in different directions. Understanding the level above them generally resolves the issue and allows action.

4. Next comes a principle that I've discovered in my own life: "Once you do begin to get clarity, wait to act until you have at least a kernel of inner certitude." Wait to

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.

A hero, in his mind, was not someone who suffered disaster after disaster, heroically pulling through with great endurance, but rather one who focused his intelligence and skills to avoid disaster, thus succeeding by good planning and crafty decision making.

And I wondered if he knew how well, how naturally he led. Was it, in the end, so different leading men? Was it not much the same—picking out the trail, deciding the safest way, strengthening the unsure step with words of encouragement, guiding, going ahead, but not too far ahead—was not trailcraft much the same as kingcraft?

How often do you find yourself saying, "In a minute", "I'll get to it" or "Tomorrow's good enough" and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it's got to be done, so let's get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.

If you want to be an action person be proactive rather than reactive...