Quotes About Decision-making

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

The bureaucrat's favorite strategy: Pass a problem on down the line.

I soon learned that it is always easier for a bureaucrat to say no. They can't get in trouble saying no.

The story of my life. Everyone always thinks they know what's best for me. When do I get to decide?

and strategy is the essential intellectual tool for doing so.

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

É da natureza dos regimes plebiscitários que sejam realizados plebiscitos até a população acertar a resposta que o líder ou a elite bem-pensante tem por correta; nesse caso, nenhum plebiscito ulterior se faz necessário – ao menos acerca do mesmo tema.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty.

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

If you don't feel you have any choice in a situation, self-esteem and confidence plummet. But once you understand that you do have a choice, self-esteem will improve. You aren't a helpless victim anymore. You decide how you deal with a situation. You aren't just reacting to life; you're creating your life.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

If given a choice between life and death, most church members and church leaders choose death if they have to make substantive changes in their churches.

El enfoque es el compromiso a abandonar todo to que queda ficera del proceso ministerial simple. El enfoque con frecuencia implica decir "no>>. El enfoque exige que se diga > a todo lo demas.

Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?