Quotes About Decision-making

What good is it to be sad after identifying the problem? You can only be sad when you are still confused, otherwise your sadness is just a matter of choice.

Todos sabemos lo que debemos hacer (detalle más o detalle menos), pero todos nos las ingeniamos, al menos parte del tiempo, para no hacerlo.

The most important decisions we make in life are not made by post-Enlightenment left-brain rationality alone.

Only the stupid regret choices. The smart learn to adapt.

Choices, we tell ourselves we have choices. So foolish are mortals. An amusement to the Fates.

Nixon to Clinton: "When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first, and then ask for their reaction. Don't ask for their advice, and then ignore it. That way you save on bruised feelings.

You know the great thing about Truman," he told Goodwin, "is that once he makes up his mind about something—anything, including the A bomb—he never looks back and asks 'should I have done it? Oh! Should I have done it?' No, he just knows he made up his mind as best he could and that's that. There's no going back. I wish I had some of that quality.

The only way to guarantee smart decisions, Ike believed, was to bring all the responsible parties together and have them fight it out. "I do not believe in bringing them in one at a time and therefore being more impressed by the most recent one you hear," he said later. "You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

can acknowledge and recognize your feelings—to yourself and to others—but you have a choice of when, where, and whether to express your feelings or to act on them.

Choosing a religion, says philosopher Ernest Gellner, has become akin to choosing a wallpaper pattern or menu item—an area of life where it is considered acceptable to act on purely personal taste or feelings. Most

Sensible decision making involves acting on the information we have, even while accepting that it may well be imperfect and our decisions may need to be revisited and revised in light of new information.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don't do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

combat command is the loneliest job in the world.