Quotes About Decision-making

I think when you're kids, you're less . . . defined? Then you get older and you start deciding what kind of person you want to be, and it doesn't always match up with what your friends are turning into.

This guy couldn't order a sandwich without tying himself in knots about the possible consequences of mayonnaise.

At least when I palmed Aislinn off on Gary, I had the basic honesty not to do it for her own good. I did it because I felt like it, and fuck her.

She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above

For Zoe Rutherford the answer was: everything. She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above her head, blood peppered the ceiling, a "castoff" spray that permeated the pimply white paint. It looked a little as though

She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along.

She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above her head, blood peppered

One, if I'm behind the wheel we go by Winchester rules: driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

She told me once that she sometimes feels caught between two worlds at school -like she has to decide who she is instead of just being who she is.

Opening up a space in her mind gave her more choice in the moment.

Minha mensagem para vocês é: finjam que têm livre-arbítrio. É essencial para vocês se comportarem como se suas decisões tivessem importância, mesmo sabendo que não têm. A realidade não importa: o que importa é a sua crença, porque acreditar nessa mentira é a única maneira de evitar o coma lúcido. A civilização depende agora da autoilusão. Talvez sempre tenha dependido.

Experts tried to explain that human decision-making was a classical rather than quantum phenomenon, so the act of making a choice didn't by itself cause new branches to split; it was quantum phenomena that generated new branches, and your choices in those branches were as meaningful as they ever were. Despite such efforts, many people became convinced that prisms nullified the moral weight of their actions.

Das Vorhandensein des freien Willens bedeutet also, dass wir die Zukunft nicht kennen können. Und dass es einen freien Willen gibt, wissen wir, weil wir ihn unmittelbar erleben. Willensentscheidungen sind ein wesentlicher Bestandteil unseres Bewusstseins. Stimmt das wirklich? Was wäre, wenn dieses Wissen ein dringliches Verlangen zur Folge hätte, ein Gefühl der Verpflichtung, genau so zu handeln, wie die Person wusste, dass sie handeln würde?

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.

we can develop willpower skills. It's more about strategy than grit or impulses. While we can't control what we think and feel, we can control what we do—which is where strategy comes into play.

It should be our habit to say "Yes" to a request unless there are good reasons to say "No". It is easy to say "No" because we do not want to think through the implications of saying "Yes.

I have prepared oatmeal for your breakfast. It is a good, nutritious food and I want you to eat it. Maybe other mornings we will have something you like better." Many are saying, "What do you want for breakfast? You don't want the oatmeal I have prepared; would you like something else?" This sounds very nice and enlightened, but what is really happening? The child is learning that he is the decision maker. The parent only suggests the options.

When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. 

I know what I'm capable of. I know when the game is on the line and we need a spark play, I'm going to make that play. But we've got to be smart about it. Can't be forcing a lot of things if I'm getting double-covered a lot.

I can't speak on anybody else's free agencies, how that's going, but for myself, it helps to kind of be patient and let it happen.

Try to never say 'yes' on the phone; instead, say, 'I'll get back to you.' When you're actually speaking to someone, the desire to be accommodating is very strong, and can lead you to say 'yes' without enough consideration.

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

If I have a fever, I take a Crocin but my wife calls a doctor, my mother calls a doctor. Similarly, investing is not something which a doctor or a lawyer or Internet specialist can really understand. Take professional advice, plan.