Quotes About Decision-making

I've always been interested in getting players to think for themselves so that they can make difficult decisions in the heat of battle.

But we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

if men are too blind to govern themselves, how can they be trusted to govern others?

If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho...even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.

It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to know when to apply injustice. How can justice fall victim, even, to what is right?

What work do I have to do then? said Will, but went on at once, No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll always be thinking about it, and if I end up doing that, I'll feel resentful because it'll feel as I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

He asks the 80 students to respond based on their 'gut feeling'. Again, students are given five options, ranging from 'less than 1%' to 'above 40%'. About half of them believe the true answer is less than 5%, of which plenty go for the 'less than 1%' option. Only 1 in 6 get it right, picking the highest option: it turns out that the true figure is 41%. He invites those people – 13 in total – to stand up.

politicians only listened to these generals, and these generals only listened to themselves.

There are dangers in this model of succumbing to "committee-itis." If too many people are jointly responsible for the execution of firm business, the chances that implementation will be deferred increase exponentially.

while most providers sell on the basis of technical competence, most buyers buy on the basis of emotion.

Despite everything," she wrote to Erwin on September 4 from Wiener Neustadt, "we were all hoping to the very end that a second world war could be avoided—we all hoped that reason would prevail in Britain and France. . . . Now the Führer has left last night for the Polish front.

Prioritization is rightly the job of the business sector, not the technology organization, and so should not be within a technical manager's remit. Unfortunately, it is commonplace for business management to abdicate that responsibility and leave a technical manager to prioritize the work—and

You've got to have the emotional understanding that you can make the right play time and time again," he would say, "but you can still lose. And even if you lose four times in a row, you're still supposed to make the same play the fifth time. It's a very easy concept in theory, but in practice it's much harder, especially when you see people making bad moves and they win. You have to do the right move all the time." Once

Women were more likely to regret sexual acts of commission, such as losing virginity to the wrong person, hooking up with a person with low mate value when drunk, and having sex with someone who was not interested in a relationship.

Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.

Honestly, though, does choice even come into it? Is it my fault that the good times fade to nothing while the bad ones burn forever bright?

The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. Add a door, add two windows. Think of putting a tree in the front yard, and then decide against it because branches aren't worth the trouble.

What are you doing?' Hugh moaned as I stepped out of the dressing room. 'That's three pairs of culottes you'll own now.' All I could say in my defense was 'Maybe I have a busy life.

Before you do something questionable," Roger continued, as he had countless times before, "ask yourself, 'What if everybody did what I'm about to do?

Turns out, utilitarianism's way too simplistic

There's not much point in making logical arguments to someone who's already decided to ignore inconvenient truths, so

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.