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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship.

It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and ensure the rigour of the proofs. But many mathematicians seem to have so little feeling for logical purity and accuracy that they will use a word to mean three or four different things, sooner than make the frightful decision to invent a new word.

Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They are patient educators who focus on preventative care in a multitude of settings outside hospitals. And they are leaders, always identifying ways for their practice to improve. Because nurses have the most direct patient care, they have much influence on serious treatment decisions. It is a very high stakes job. Everyone wants the best nurse for the job, and that equates to the best educated nurse.

How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

The only certainty is uncertainty

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument.

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.

A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.