Quotes About Decision-making

It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.

El peligro no justifica un acto irresponsable, por grave que sea la situación. Arya

Un hombre con conciencia... lo más peligroso del mundo. Nasuada

not like this. There must be someone else in the Varden who would be better suited to the task. What about Martland Redbeard?" Nasuada made a dismissive motion. "He can't ride at full gallop with only one hand.

A place where we are responsible for our own actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment. I won't tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.

It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.

And the elves...the elves were elegant and efficient and polite to a fault, but once they made a decision, they would not or could not change their minds. Dealing with them had proven far more frustrating than Eragon had anticipated, and the more time he spent around them, the more he'd begun to agree with Orik's opinion of elves. They were best admired from a distance.

This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyone in the same situation would have done as they did. For even among them, some refused to kill and others stopped killing. Human responsibility is ultimately an individual matter.

Montaigne blessed the form when he said, "If I knew my own mind, I would not make essays. I would make decisions.

Instead of making a change and expecting others to just accept it, take time to explain the why behind the decision, including alternatives, and why the final choice made the most sense. If you can ask for ideas and input ahead of time, it's even better. Finally, acknowledge how the decision will affect everyone.

Before long, you'll find yourself thinking of the list before you act, which will set the stage for making choices you can live with.

si no se confía en que una mujer tome decisiones sobre su propio cuerpo, ¿cómo se la puede ver como autónoma en lo que respecta al resto de su vida?

It always seems easier to do nothing, when the harm is don elsewhere," Dakon said. "They know their young ones will either learn a lesson and limp home – or die and stop being a problem – or prove successful. The worst that could happen is a bit of a diplomatic hiccup in history.

Some of them failed, like [General Joseph "Fighting Joe"] Hooker at Chancellorsville [April 30 to May 6, 1863], because when they won a victory they lost their heads, and did not know what to do with it.

I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

La ciencia no consiste sólo en saber lo que debe o puede hacerse, sino también en saber lo que podría hacerse aunque quizá no debiera hacerse.

And 'poor' does not so much mean owning a palace or not; it means, rather, keeping or renouncing the right to legislate on earthly matters.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must do or can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

You have to educate people first— you can't let them go out and vote for whatever they want! You don't know what you'd end up with!

Here, too, many would scold at the government, but for the opposite reason, that it couldn't keep its mind made up; it was composed of polite old gentlemen who couldn't bear to disturb things or to displease their subordinates, the bureaucrats, no matter what election results came in.

Rigid ranking based on minuscule differences misleads rather than informs. Rounding and approximation is superior to unwarranted and unnecessary precision. Doubt, caution, and incessant questioning are in order—but so is the insistence on quantifying the complex realities of the modern world. If we are to understand many unruly realities, if we are to base our decisions on the best available information, then there is no substitute for this pursuit.

Obviously, this atomization of knowledge has not made any public decision-making easier.