Quotes About Decision-making

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: "No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat."

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called 'pigheadedness'.

Never follow the crowd....Until and unless you're crossing the road...

People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels.

The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.

For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.