Quotes About Decision-making

Napoleon said, 'When your enemy is doing something stupid, don't interfere.

All the same, said the Scarecrow, I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

Mesmo assim — disse o Espantalho — vou pedir um cérebro em vez de um coração. Porque um burro, mesmo se tivesse um coração, não ia saber o que fazer com ele. — E eu vou ficar com o coração — respondeu o Lenhador de Lata. — Porque um cérebro não faz ninguém feliz, e a felicidade é a melhor coisa do mundo.

Sin embargo —dijo el Espantapájaros—, yo pediré un cerebro en vez de un corazón, pues un tonto sin sesos no sabría qué hacer con su corazón si lo tuviera. —Yo prefiero el corazón —replicó el Leñador—, porque el cerebro no lo hace a uno feliz, y la felicidad es lo mejor que hay en el mundo. Dorothy guardó silencio; ignoraba cuál de sus dos amigos tenía la razón

Men choose a religion, but a Christian is chosen by Jesus Christ.

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

As a rule, Americans are big on that word "choice" and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

I respect the fact that Donald Trump always listens. It's how he was in business. It's how he is as president.

I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it

When you come to a fork in the road, just take it

When you get to the fork in the road.....take it!

If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.

A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.

If the future of humanity is decided in your absence, because you are too busy feeding and clothing your kids, you and they will not be exempt from the consequences.

Humans are used to thinking about life as a drama of decision-making.

Referendums and elections are always about human feelings, not about human rationality.

It turned out that our choices of everything from food to mates result not from some mysterious free will, but rather from billions of neurons calculating probabilities within a split second. Vaunted 'human intuition' is in reality 'pattern recognition'.3

In illiterate societies people make all calculations and decisions in their heads. In literate societies people are organised into networks, so that each person is only a small step in a huge algorithm, and it is the algorithm as a whole that makes the important decisions. This is the essence of bureaucracy. Think

Feelings guide not just voters but their leaders as well.