Quotes About Decision-making

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

Design can also be used to invent strategic futures, make complex decisions, and craft a bold corporate vision. We need to move design up the ladder of influence.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

I give dignity second place to expedience.

From the point in life when a man/woman is responsible for his/her choices, he/she starts to live a story brought to life by the dreams that have been consciously or subconsciously conceived.

Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

I know him very well, but I think Alessandro Del Piero knows himself the best, better than everyone else, so only he can answer the question if he needs to stop or needs to play. It's his own decision.

I have evolved my game to be quick, to know what to do when the ball comes to me.

It is important to have leadership groups, but at the end of the day I need to be taking the call because I'm responsible for the team and I should know exactly what I'm doing and I believe in that.

I'm really more of an executive.

There's a negative effect when you run around without exhausting everything that happens with the play call.

I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.

How could somebody be comfortable with authorizing legally the use of lethal force? My view is if you become comfortable with it, then you should get out of the job.

Part of being not only a liberal but also a human is to make your own decisions.

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.