Quotes About Decision-making

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

We are all the same instincts-- Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing less.

This morning, my son asked me for money to buy a sheep. Should I help him, do you think?" "Since it clearly isn't a matter of urgency, wait another week before giving him your answer." "But I have the means to help him now. What difference will a week make?" "A very great difference indeed. Experience has taught me that people only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been un-certain as to whether or not they'll get it.

I want and need to like myself again; I have to convince myself that I'm capable of taking my own decision.

Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to choose them. Yet, the line between get to and have to blurs awfully fast.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances.

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming. This basso continuo thrums along while doctors make a steady stream of conscious medical decisions.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

as though you have to have him, run. He won't do you any good.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

I'm positive I wouldn't consider having sex with Guy if I hadn't already had sex beforehand. I always knew I wanted my first time to be with someone I loved and who loved me, which it was . . . but shouldn't I want that for every time? I disagree with what Amy said about how once you go all the way, you can't go back to "everything but." But now that I have done it, it doesn't seem nearly as big a deal to do it again.