Quotes About Decision-making

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

An employer's decision-making process is less rational than you might think.

Solía plantear cinco alternativas para que el presidente escogiera, enumerando en primer y último lugar las opciones más extremas y poniendo en medio las que Kissinger prefería.

This technique works for humans as well. If you have a kid who is reluctant to get dressed, give her a choice of clothing. That makes her feel powerful. Wrong: Would you please get dressed? Right: Which do you want to wear, the red shirt or the blue one?

Verás cuándo funciona mejor la lógica y cuándo deberías apoyarte en una estrategia emocional.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.

Eisenhower studied his mistakes. "We are learning something every day, and in general do not make the same mistake twice."9 Ike learned to be tougher with subordinates such as Fredendall. "Officers that fail must be ruthlessly weeded out," Eisenhower wrote his old friend Leonard Gerow. "Considerations of friendship, family, kindness, and nice personality have nothing to do with the problem.… You must be tough.

Rice assumed her duty was to translate Bush's instincts and intuition into policy. Instincts and intuition are a poor substitute for reasoned analysis. [...] "He was feeling his way," said Cheney.

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Trust your heart rather than your head.

A younger you might have responded impulsively by letting your emotions carry you away without much thought or consideration. Those same emotions may arise, but a maturity (often having to do with being responsible for others) stops you from acting on them. You know that whatever you decide to do here matters. It is time to call on Hecate to help you see the larger picture, to stay at the crossroad until it is clear to you which path to take.

To be a choicemaker in the third phase means that what you choose to do or be must correspond with what is true for you at a soul level.

When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.

We all suffer from flawed thinking and decision making.

But basing a whole philosophy of life on what you would do in extremis does not seem to me to be right.

What seems to you the right thing for me to do? Judy

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

you could choose a different path,

quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem...Skye was used to hearing this phrase, which Mr. Penderwick translated loosely as look before you leap and please don't do anything crazy.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

My mother had a philosophy that guided her through many a rough time. 'Only worry when you can do something about it--whatever it is. Then it's not worry, it's thinking things through, trying to decide what's best. When there's nothing you can do, it's just plain worry, and it's pointless and self-destructive.

The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.