Explore Quotes on Decision

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.

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

Why argue about decisions you're not powerful enough to make yourself?

Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.

Maybe don't make it so.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.