Quotes About Decision-making

At the 1997 MacWorld Developers Conference, he explained, "When you think about focusing, you think, 'Well, focusing is saying yes.' No! Focusing is about saying no." Jobs

Most people struggle to comprehend how many things don't need to be done, if they would just start by doing the right thing.

Obviously, you can drive yourself nuts analyzing every little aspect of everything you might do. I don't do that, and you shouldn't either. Start with the big stuff and see where it takes you.

The truth we discovered was that you have to know values in order to recognize opportunities and have to find opportunities before you can do deals.

you have a limited supply of willpower, so decide what matters and reserve your willpower for it.

I still observe executives exhibiting the same lack of courage or knowledge that undercut previous waves of innovation. They declare that they want more innovation but then ask, 'Who else is doing it?' They claim to seek new ideas but shoot down every one brought to them.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

When decisions were finally made, they had generally been vetted by so many parties that no one person could be held accountable.

Execution is the result of thousands of decisions made every day by employees acting according to the information they have and their own self-interest.

I'm going to ask you to do something that may feel even more painful: when you get close to becoming engaged, put any public announcement on delay for a few weeks and spend several sessions talking through all these issues again with someone else present.

In this generation, we parents have gone out of our way to protect our children from pain and to see that they succeed. The problem with this approach is that the kids don't learn wisdom, and they don't learn decision-making skills. I believe we learn more from failure than success, but when parents keep kids from failure, our children inevitably end up lacking wisdom.

It's sort of like signing a mortgage or buying a business while drunk. You need to "dry out" a bit and think this thing through before you commit the rest of your life to someone you can't objectively evaluate

Jesus's teachings direct us to make a decision that will lead to righteousness—to seek someone who will inspire us toward godliness, who will confront us when we go astray, who will forgive us when we mess up, who can encourage us with wisdom when we are uncertain about how to proceed.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

Unanimity testifies to thoughtlessness, because in politics there are always arguments on both sides... political judgement should not be reflexive but deliberative.

The conscious or unconscious decision to use violence, or to do most anything, involves many mental and emotional processes, but they usually boil down to how a person perceives four fairly simple issues: justification, alternatives, consequences, and ability.

Muchos traders están tan temerosos de perder un posible movimiento del mercado que no se atreven a dedicar tiempo a reenfocar sus planes de trading. No se dan cuenta de que un riesgo mucho mayor es perder de vista sus planes y hacer trading a tontas y a locas.

You need to develop a mantra: "There will always be another trade." Learn it, know it, live it.

I think my life would be easier, she said, if I could just get my selves to agree on something.

In engineering or medical science, a deep understanding of uncertainty can be a matter of life and death. In politics, over-confidence is often the norm; uncertainty is seen as weakness when really it is a vital part of decision making. In this respect, science delivers an important lesson in humility. In

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

We have lived as slaves most of our lives. We do not know how to make choices

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

Lucas had narrowed his lead threesome down to two competing groups: in one was Walken, Will Seltzer, and Terri Nunn, a trio Lucas described as "a little more serious, a little more realistic"; in the other, Ford, Hamill, and Fisher, a group Lucas called "a little more fun, more goofy.