Quotes About Decision-making

Fermin hung up the phone and went back to the waiting room. Fernandito watched him anxiously. "Who were you talking to?" "To common sense.

Acho que o problema não está na ciência, mas naqueles que decidem como empregá-la.

I found a tin of English chocolate biscuits and decided to have some. Half an hour later, my veins pumping with sugar and caffeine, my brain started to work and I had the brilliant idea of beginning the day by complicating my existence even further, if that was possible.

Perhaps the most dangerous thing on Earth is the person who always follows. What if you follow the wrong person? The wrong Idea?

Her father drove up and down car aisles, looking for a good slot. Who cared about a good slot? Just park the car already!

self-knowledge promotes choice and action, and many people feel unready for either.

Emotions aren't a hindrance to wise decision-making, but are central to the Christian life.

Do you think you're well enough to do this job. You don't have to do it. No one's going to think any the less of you if you stay here with me. There's no point being so liberated you make yourself cry all the time. You stay and we'll get everything sorted out. What it is about sex, when we talk while it's happening I get to feel it's like a driving lesson. Left, right, a little faster, carry on, slow down...

Janis believed that groups are especially likely to suffer from groupthink if they are cohesive, have highly directive leadership, and are insulated from experts.

People are moderately more likely to favor approaches that involve reflection and deliberation.

Girls who do not feel good about themselves need the affirmation of others, and that need, unfortunately, almost always empowers male desire. In other words, girls who hate their bodies do not make good decisions about partners, or about the kind of sexual activity that is in their best interest. Because they want to be wanted so much, they are susceptible to manipulation, to flattery, even to abuse.5

you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.

You are your own best judge. And the best advice I can give is, if you have even the slightest doubt, if you're even thinking of asking yourself or me or anyone else if you're really ready, you're probably not ready.

I hated trying to figure out what was best morally, because so often that didn't jibe with my gut reaction.

We can't continue to put people lacking the ability to understand a business in a position to run a business.

When I need things to happen, I need them to happen now, you know. I don't want to be having a meeting about a meeting about a meeting, which is what can happen in Britain.

I hate having people sit in on meetings.

I have to be a good game manager for us to be able to win games. I like having a gunslinger mentality, though, because I'm not afraid to make any throw.

Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

A guy can try something and not be successful, and it's just about him. But when you're a person of color, when you're a woman, when you're a woman of color in particular, you mess it up, and other people get tarred by your decision-making. You never act alone.

I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.