Quotes About Decision-making

Di hutan, kulihat dua cabang jalan terbentang. Kuambil yang jarang dilalui orang. Dan itulah yang membuat segala perbedaan

If it is not worth doing, it is worth not doing it well.

So much of power is not what you do but what you do not do—the rash and foolish actions that you refrain from before they get you into trouble.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces.

So much of power is not what you do but what you do not do—the rash and foolish actions that you refrain from before they get you into trouble. Plan in detail before you act—do not let vague plans lead you into trouble.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. PORTIA, IN The Merchant of Venice, I

There are four common ways of making decisions: command, consult, vote, and consensus.

whatever the decision-making method, the greater the shared meaning in the pool, the better the choice, the more the unity, and the stronger the conviction

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you're not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time - and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.

The only path that leads to the ultimate you—because beyond goals, that's really what we're talking about—is the path you choose yourself. Nobody is in charge of you but you.

I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.

People mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

In all of my years doing this job, I have never given the drug to anyone over three months pregnant; not once, because everybody listens to me, except you.

Not even a suicide these days does away with himself in desperation but deliberates on this step so long and so sensibly that he is strangled by calculation, making it a moot point whether or not he can really be called a suicide, inasmuch as it was in fact the deliberating that took his life. A premeditated suicide he was not, but rather a suicide by means of premeditation.

Worried, I touched the jacket's sleeve. "You think it's too much?" I asked, working hard to keep my tone non-combative. I'd had this conversation with ex-roommates before.

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.

They talked and talked and talked. Twenty-four biomes, ten thousand conversations. Talk talk talk. As they talked, it began to come clear to them that they had no very effective method of governance, when it came to making decisions as a group. Had humans ever had such a thing, they asked themselves, since leaving the savannah? Since congregating in cities? They could not be sure. The histories suggested maybe not.

Our current economics has not yet answered any of these questions. But why should it? Do you ask your calculator what to do with your life? No. You have to figure that out for yourself.

The servile will is always locked in a double bind: to have a will means the agent will indeed will various actions, following autonomous decisions made by a conscious mind; and yet at the same time this will is specified to be servile, and at the command of some other will that commands it. To attempt to obey both sources of willfulness is the double bind. All double binds lead to frustration, resentment, anger, rage, bad faith, bad fate.

She seemed to soften at that, but then she asked, Has anything really changed? I've learned I need to consult you in matters, lest you decapitate me.

Listen very hard and follow your heart. Your heart is good. It's your brain that gets you into trouble.

She had challenged his whole life plan—to find God's will and do it— said he was fixated on finding the one thing God intended for him, when every moment was an opportunity. What if she was right? Could one choice be God's will, and another as well? It might not be about finding the one right answer as much as knowing the heart of God and choosing from the possibilities.

Mr Gandhi thought)...The parliament system was too slow at times unproductive , and it never gave a free hand to the person at the top....

In ogni caso va usato il buon senso che – e non solo in montagna – vale più della teoria, soprattutto se conti di tornare a casa a raccontare la storia.