119 quotes found
“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”
“All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point.”
“If you're being bombarded with information, the act of looking for patterns – not necessarily finding them – is what going to give you psychic refuge, a sense of sanctuary.”
“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...”
“Thinking can be done best when you’re in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration.”
“Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.”
“In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really ar...”
“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”
“Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.”
“Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.”
“A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.”
“Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important reason for obeying the law. By obeying the law, I can contribute to the respect in which the est...”
“Urgency and despair don't get along well.”
“It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind”
“I’m not leaving the plane that way,” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice—a third place that is neither “have to” or “want to.” That discovery freed me to move forward to ...”
“She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge on its way towards Wexford, Eilis imagined the years already when these words would come to mean l...”
“The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.”
“Freedom of will is born from the neurons. And that freedom allows you to sometimes make even the worst decisions ever in your life. And by making the worst decision, you simply learn what would be ...”
“In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.”
