Quotes About Decision-making

That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

Chiseled a single commandment upon a slab of stone: That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

Sometimes you plug the hole any way you can, and worry about fixing the boat later. If the choices are sinking today or tomorrow, I'll take tomorrow.

stay balanced and beware: don't let the team succumb to analysis paralysis

Be polite, be kind, but be firm if you are clear that the idea in question will deplete you. Your ability to say no without justifying your decisions might be one of the least developed but most powerful tools women can learn.

Choosing is about assessing what has the best chance of achieving your goal based on some combination of what you know and what's unclear. Knowing yourself – your goals, your values, your needs – is a level of self-awareness that creates the most solid foundation possible for making choices.

The Must list is short because you are going to say "no" to anything that does not check every box on it.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it - Yogi Berra

never let your emotions override your intellect!

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

Sometimes I don't reflect on the consequences

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy,

availability bias—making decisions on the basis of more recent and more accessible information loss aversion—the strong preference to avoid a loss rather than to make an equivalent gain selective cognition—taking on board facts and arguments that fit with our existing frames risk bias—underestimating the likelihood of extreme events, while overestimating our ability to cope with them.

Nudge policies, in essence, can be used to encourage us to mimic the way that we would behave if we were as rational as economic man.

Rather than overriding our rules of thumb with a nudge, he argues, we should nurture those heuristic abilities while bolstering them with basic skills in assessing risk.

But what does it mean to feel pressured or coerced to abort? Abortion opponents cite lurid news stories of women threatened with guns or even murdered for rejecting abortion. That's coercion. But a parent who lays out in detail the hard life of a single mother is not forcing a daughter to terminate her pregnancy, nor is a boyfriend who says he's not up for marriage or ready to be a father, or a sister who says there's no room for another baby in a shared apartment.

The extraordinary deference paid to physicians and their judgment preserved the idea that the woman's desire to end a pregnancy was not enough in itself, it had to be approved by a respectable authority figure, at the time almost always a man.

Pro-choicers often say no one is "pro-abortion," but what is so virtuous about adding another child to the ones you're already overwhelmed by? Why do we make young women feel guilty for wanting to feel ready for motherhood before they have a baby? Isn't it a good thing that women think carefully about what it means to bring a child into this world—what, for example, it means to the children she already has?

I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

If it were possible to treat everyone well, then anybody would do that. But sometimes we have to decide on an order. Liking everyone the same means that you don't like any one person. At least that's what I think.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Negotiation scholars have observed this phenomenon so often we have a name for it: "escalation of commitment." People lose sight of their real goals in competitive situations and pay far too much money, spend too much time, or sacrifice too many other interests for the privilege of saying they have won.

In auction situations, the final bidder overpays so often that economists call the accompanying feeling of regret the "winner's curse.