In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is...
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
He who reflects too much will achieve little.
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad
Keep Patience And Get Perfection
People always say in the end you only regret the choices you didn't make but I really think you also regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more import...
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by opinions when you reach DECISIONS, you wi...
I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the maki...
However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever ra...
I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and glov...
In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.
When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.
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...