Decision Quotes - Page 56

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

It's amazing how much research has gone into making some of the worst decisions.

Never make decisions from a place of lack.

I'm trying to have no regrets. I'm starting to learn about myself and how to live. As an actor, part of the job is accepting your life and learning how to roll with it. I want to live a life where I don't regret any decisions, and if I do, I learn from them.

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.

We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.

Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and any decision we reach should correspond to the national interests of the Russian Federation.

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.

It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny.