Quotes About Decision-making

You do not need a recipe plan," said Masha. "You are intelligent woman. You know what to do to lose weight, if that's what you want. You are not especially fat. You are not especially thin. You want to be thinner. That is your choice. I find this not so interesting.

What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Some of us are grown-up at age twelve; some of us never mature. It's not a question of whether you're old enough to make your own decision; are you old enough to take responsibility for the outcome if it turns out to be a bad decision?

I don't think we should do this anymore.' 'Do what?' 'Go out.' He laughs and pulls me closer. 'What are you talking about?' I don't normally have to break up with anyone. Usually they do it for me, or I leave the state or the country. I don't have to spell it out very often.

I'm not a self-destructive person. I learned that lesson at a relatively young age. But at some point during the drive from the police station to the bar, I stopped thinking. I stopped being reasonable. I stopped being so goddamn responsible. Sometimes none of those things make a damn bit of difference.

The political scientist Robert A. Dahl observed more than a half century ago that the Supreme Court "is an essential part of the political leadership," part of the "dominant political alliance.

Robert Dahl's assessment of the Court's role in the political system is from his article "Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-Maker," Journal of Public Law 6 (1957) 279–95.

She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.

A native friend of mine writes: It can be hard to tell true Guidance from your own ego in disguise. True Guidance is subtle and can be overshadowed by our own wishful thinking. So Guidance is most trustworthy when what it tells you is something you don't want to do, or at least something you would never have thought of yourself. Guidance is most questionable when it matches what you do want to do.

I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do . . . . And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives.

Starting today, instead of saying "I have to" when discussing your actions or goals, substitute the words "I choose to." Now the phrase "I have to go to work" becomes "I choose to go to work." And "I have to lose weight" becomes "I choose to lose weight." Saying "I choose to" puts you in charge and affirms that you want to see results.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

But one should not trust first impulses. Instinct is not always a safe counsellor by any means.

I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.

The right to boss pregnant women around was surely on its way into the Constitution

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.

I've got this image in my head of how I want my life to look, and I have absolutely no idea how to get there. And I'm so scared that I'll make some wrong decision - just one - and everything will get messed up and go wrong -for good.

People make choices, choices have consequences.

She wants to ask Pat why she didn't plan it that way. She was clever and had ambitions. Why did she get pregnant at twenty? Why didn't she go back to university afterwards? But she doesn't. Instead, she slides the photo back

We were all too young. Did you know that the parts of the brain involved in decision-making aren't fully developed until you're twenty-five years old?

Make your choice and accept the consequences.