Quotes About Decision-making

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

Having more data does not always give you the power to make better decisions.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did.

Growing your leadership capacity demands personal effectiveness. Being effective is the ability to do the right thing at all times, no matter the cost.

Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

To be sure, there is no advance guarantee that when two practices are in total or massive conflict with each other, one of them will be more firmly established than the other. But that is just an example of the general point that the human condition provides no guarantee that we will not be faced with questions we have no way to settle.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.