Quotes About Decision-making

Studies of teenage behavior shows that the terrible teens is not a biological necessity, as a number of cultures don't experience this phenomenon. A study of teenagers in Western cultures found that these teenagers have fewer choices than a felon in prison. Food for thought. Finding a way to make a choice, however small, seems to have a measurable impact on the brain, shifting you from an away response to a toward response.

It appears that the perception of choice may be more important than diet and other factors for health. Choosing in some way to experience stress is less stressful than experiencing stress without a sense of choice or control.

If you don't know what you are purchasing, you are just taking unnecessary risk. If you haven't done your homework to really understand the characteristics of an investment class, you are taking risk.

I keep a box in which I store his artwork and writings, like his response to an assignment in which he has been asked if you should always try your best. "I don't think you should always try your best all the time," he writes, "because, let's say a drug atick asks you for drugs you should not try your best to find him some drugs." Another assignment that goes into the box is

our children live or die with or without us. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It is a devastating realization, but also liberating. I finally chose life for myself. I chose the perilous but essential path that allows me to accept that Nic will decide for himself how—and whether—he will live his life.

If we humans are good at anything, it's thinking we've got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

As a boss, he would never overlook the unexpected when it happened; he would always do the unexpected as a response.

All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran — or Grayson — Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that was .

we will once again err on the side of not letting people be murdered . You take the choice in front of you. And then you keep picking the non-murder choice as long as you can.

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

Be careful that the hill you die on isn't a molehill

Like lemmings voting for steeper cliff faces

Stop outsourcing your morality to governments

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

St. Frideswide's seat before her intended, she will be master in her own house." "And if a woman does not wish to marry?" I asked archly. He grinned. "Then I believe she does not need St. Frideswide's help in the first place.

That's the trouble with women," she said. "We know what we oughtn't do, and yet we do it anyway. Nature has given us instincts, but when a man comes along, we hear only his voice, and not our own

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago, he just want through these poor guys like you go through a bag of M&M's when you've got your period. Consume, and on the the next.

The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy.

Our choices define who we are when we make them. Therefore, we always have the power to change and choose who we are.

you have to find the words to make it sound important

Life is not a race.....not a struggle, & bla bla ....We make it a race, struggle.It's we to decide how should it be. Actually Life is Present & the choices we choose in past.

Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.

We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.