Quotes About Decision-making

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.

It's not like they could have done it if he'd been following his dick around like it found him water." "A dowsing dick?" Audra asked.

I hadn't been "possessed", after all. Not by an angel or a demon. Maybe there were aspects of both inside me, but I was the one who chose which to let out.

forcing Magellan to seek shelter. He ordered the fleet to reverse course

depended to make decisions concerning affairs of state.

Plan the flight and fly the plan. But don't fall in love with the plan. Be open to a changing world and let go of the plan when necessary so that you can make a new plan. Then, as the world and the plan both go through their book of changes, you will always be ready to do the next right thing.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

What would she have done if she'd been in that situation? Mrs. Richardson would ask herself this question over and over, before Michael's call and for weeks—and months—after. Each time, faced with this impossible choice, she came to the same conclusion. I would never have let myself get into that situation, she told herself. I would have made better choices along the way.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

God would reveal "Himself to anyone who would "listen," and that "He" had a minutely detailed plan for every human life. The sheer chutzpah of this belief is positively breathtaking. It's the most grandiose excuse imaginable for the evasion of individual thought, responsibility, and decision making.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

As market expert Jason Zweig puts it, "If we shopped for stocks the way we shop for socks, we'd be better off." We are wrong when we feel good about stocks having gone up, and we are wrong when we feel bad about stocks having gone down.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?

Pilate listened to the crowd. What sailor listens to the swell ? (Pilate écouta la foule. - Quel marin écoute la houle ?)

it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too

Herbert received me with open arms, and I had never felt before so blessedly what it is to have a friend. When he had spoken some sound words of sympathy and encouragement, we sat down to consider the question, What was to be done?

If you knew what a conflict goes on in the business mind, when the business mind is divided between good-natured impulse and business appearances, you would be amused, Mr. Darnay.