~ Decisions Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Henry Ford

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.

Anne Perry

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.

Francis Bacon

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In the three years I played ball we won six lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.

Roger M. Blough

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep the people you chose to be with and the laws you choose to obey.

Charles Millhuff

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want peace or war and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

William Graham Sumner

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes but what our purposes are to be.

Norbert Weiner

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Peter Cooper

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

Dag Hammarskjold

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.

W. H. Auden

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

Dr. Logain Clendening

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others whom it affects and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Blaise Pascal

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed or exempt from danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.

Lee Iacocca