Quotes about Decisions
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you.
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
It`s a mistake to think that in hard choices, one alternative really is better than the other, but we`re too stupid to know which, and since we don`t know which, we might as well take the least risky option. Even taking two alternatives side by side with full information, a choice can still be hard. Hard choices are hard not because of us or our ignorance; they`re hard because there is no best option.
If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else. Always wishing life was different.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Every person must decide, at some point, whether they will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. (...) Life`s most persistent and urgent question is. "What are you doing for others?"