Quotes About Decision-making

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.

Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the infant, without even considering if there's a man on base.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to say "no" to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. ~Stephen Covey

Ousted from the Lincoln ticket, Hamlin—temperate when it came to his own drinking—perhaps was only too happy to comply. And so Johnson—on one of the most important days of his political career—opted for the dubious "hair of the dog" strategy. But sometimes the dog bites back.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

People with DID often experience conflicting advice or opinions emanating from their alter personalities. Individual alter personalities may have coherent, consistent identities, but, taken as a group, the incompatible internal personalities generate an atmosphere of conflict as well as incoherence. As one patient described it, "Do you know how hard it is to get a hundred and four minds to come together to a single decision?

In no case should we abandon responsibility for our own choice-making or give someone else's conception of what we are more weight than our own sense of self.

If you've ever binge-watched a season or two of a TV show on Netflix when you should be studying, or finishing an assignment, or going to sleep, you know how an appealing distraction can trigger a self-defeating choice.

The more aware we are, the less likely any trigger, even in the most mundane circumstances, will prompt hasty unthinking behavior that leads to undesirable consequences.

No one expects you to act on every piece of advice.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract.

How humans decide what to do with their arms on a second by second basis, I still have no idea

I'd hacked my governor module and kept doing my job because I didn't know what else to do (except you know, a murderous rampage, but murderous rampages are overrated and interfere with one's ability to keep watching media)

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me. That's why I left you, Dr. Mensah, my favorite human. By the time you get this I'll be leaving Corporation Rim. Out of inventory and out of sight. Murderbot end message.

She watched me search for seven minutes and forty seconds, then said, "Can I ask you a question?" I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always "no" or just give in to the inevitable? I said, "Is it contract-relevant?" Big, adolescent human sigh noise. "I just want to understand something." I gave in to the inevitable. "Yes.

His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.