Quotes About Decision-making

Conscience is wiser than science.

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them.

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.

Education gives you the ability to know it. Intelligence gives you the capacity to fix it. Wisdom lets you know when to do it.

The heart is seldom wiser than the mind, but when it is, listen to it.

A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather.

Is it reasonable to assume that the jarring nature of a particular consequence might be the very thing that strong-arms us away from making the poor choice that we didn't see as a poor choice?

Are you kidding me? This is an issue that you need to consider according to your own principles rather than specific rules.

Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice.

You don't create your thoughts, but you choose your thoughts. To pick the right thoughts at a right time is what wisdom is all about.

Often times it is difficult to rely on your judgment when the focus on your true objective is out of alignment.

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line, ' and we showed up with an eraser?

If there is one thing above all others a successful man should know, it is when to stop.

One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this, " he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to govern at national and provincial level.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.

In high school I just loved to compete and play sports. I didn't have a sport that I was going to say, 'Hey, I'm going to play this at the next level.' Whatever my best opportunity was was what I was going to do.

Being Speaker of the House is a really tough spot.

In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree.