Quotes About Decision-making

Trump was often just one yes-man away from doing what he wanted. One attorney general. One military commander. One vice president.

OW: Well, you see, I'm not like you. I'm not judgmental. With me, it's, "Here I am, not going to Africa." I don't say to myself, "Why don't you go to Africa?" I don't discuss it with myself. Because if I did, I would go to Africa. So it is the self-indulgent devil in me that stops the dialogue.

The illusion of mastery is an example of poor metacognition: what we know about what we know. Being accurate in your judgment of what you know and don't know is critical for decision making.

The answer to illusion and misjudgment is to replace subjective experience as the basis for decisions with a set of objective gauges outside ourselves, so that our judgment squares with the real world around us. When we have reliable reference points, like cockpit instruments, and make a habit of checking them, we can make good decisions about where to focus our efforts, recognize when we've lost our bearings, and find our way back again.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

It was a collective building up of nerve, absolving them of any guilt in advance.

General Meade will commit no blunder in my front, and if I make one he will make haste to take advantage of it."28 Since the morning of June 28th, when

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Do you want to attend to this book or do you want to read by yourself?" The student responded, "Read by myself.

The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, and more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?'...As Mark Twain is said to have remarked, 'It is not what I don't understand in the Bible that troubles me; it is what is perfectly clear that does.

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.