Quotes About Decision-making

and I wondered whether he might have stayed alive had he gone to New York instead.

The higher the level of consciousness at which we operate, the more we live by explicit choice and the more naturally does integrity follow as a consequence.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

After seventeen days, one of the crew suggested that they cast lots. As it turned out, the lot fell to the man who had originally made the proposal, and after lots were cast again to see who should execute him, he was killed and eaten.

Custer did not drink; he didn't have to. His emotional effusions unhinged his judgment in ways that went far beyond alcohol's ability to interfere with clear thinking.

The end doesn't always justify the means. But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows? They do it all the time, says Hayden. That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

The end doesn't always justify the means, dear," she said. "But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

And everyone else was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on a single issue.

Every Unwind believes in their heart of hearts that it won't happen to them—that their parents, no matter how strained things get, will be smart enough not to fall for the net ads, TV commercials, and billboards that say things like "Unwinding: the sensible solution.

Everyone just calls me Emby. Is that your choice, or theirs? asks the Admiral. Well...theirs, mostly-but I got used to it. Never let anyone else name you, says the Admiral.

The Thunderhead sees just about everything, what with cameras everywhere. But it also decides what infractions are worth the effort to address and which ones are not.

The end doesn't always justify the means, dear, she said. But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue. It was beyond madness.

Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on.

A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.

you've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

who held title to all the land and its produce, could vote down decisions by the male leaders of the League and demand that an issue be reconsidered. Under this regime women were so much better off than their counterparts in Europe that nineteenth-century U.S. feminists like Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, all of whom lived in Haudenosaunee country, drew inspiration from their lot.

At least 80 percent of Capital's most important decisions have been 'No' decisions: active, carefully thought-through decisions not to take a specific action. That's why one of the hallmarks of Capital is how seldom it makes major mistakes.

Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands.

crisis of the will. When a darkened mind chooses to remain in darkness, no one is to blame but the individual making that choice.

Never bring a knife to a gun fight, I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks about it for a moment, then falls off.