I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.
Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.
Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.
Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.
I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
You don't wanna know the sinner. You don't wanna know the killer. Because it's you. Television is stalling evolution. Medication is stalling evolution. Evolution is stalling revolution. Evolution, revolution. Collaboration, the start of revolution. My decision, the start of revolution. Revolution, the start of evolution. Revolution, evolution.
Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.
The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why. " "They need to learn their why. " "That politician needs to understand his why. " We talk about it as a noun. That never existed prior to 2009. That never existed prior to 2006 when I first started articulating it. This is the most amazing thing to me. It has now become a concept. It's part of the way we think about businesses and transactions and decisions.
The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.
Solitude is one of our great superpowers. . . Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.
Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
I had to make these decisions after 911, make a decision about how to proceed forward with an investigation or how to pull back, whether you use certain actionable intelligence or whether not to. And yet they continue to debate about this bill and in the subcommittee and what - nobody in America cares about that.
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.
We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
Don't let fear govern your decision.
If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions and legislation, this leaves plenty of gray areas, including many of great significance that are rarely discussed: advocacy of imminent war crimes, such as aggression, for example. I think we would all agree that such speech should be protected, despite the often horrific consequences, but it's worth noting that that stretches the doctrine to its limits.