Quotes About Decision-making

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

I nodded, not yet realizing that as far as the world was concerned, what was best for the baby could mean something entirely different from what was best for me.

in a democracy the great leaders are allowed to lead only because they are elected.

Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.

The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

What's the difference between Chamberlain and Hitler? Chamberlain takes a weekend in the country, Hitler takes a country in a weekend.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.

It's too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won't happen after all—or maybe it will only happen to other people. That kind of thinking is part of what it means to be adolescent.

Politicians, on the other hand, are short-term thinkers, opportunists, sometimes with consciences, but opportunists nevertheless.

These were stupid affairs—wastes of life and treasure. They were fought, ostensibly, to defend against vicious foreign enemies. All too often, they were actually fought because inadequate leaders did not know what else to do.

Whether or not you go in a positive direction depends entirely on you. You have to be your own teacher and try to figure out what it takes to accomplish your goals. You have to be your own judge and try to get yourself to do the right thing and stop yourself from doing the wrong thing. Take responsibility for yourself. (17th Karmapa)

Eighty percent of an Agency brain is devoted to repercussions and possible futures, even when you're just thinking about moving in with your boyfriend.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.

Where I had felt a victim, I had become a determiner by recognizing I had choices. When considering a purchase, I stopped saying, "I can't afford it," and started saying, "That's not where I want to spend that amount of money.

Basta volere un figlio per costringerlo alla vita? Ed è giusto sacrificare una vita già fatta a una vita che ancora non è?

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.