Decision Making

Decision-Making

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
Abraham Maslow 1908-1970, American humanistic psychologist and originator of the Hierarchy of Needs

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads: One path leads to despair and hopelessness, and the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen 1935-, American author, director, producer and writer

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Plinius the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus) circa 23-79, Roman natural historian

To think is to differ.
Clarence Darrow 1857-1938, American lawyer famous for his wit

Among the safest courses, the safest of all is to doubt.
Spanish proverb

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
Johann Friedrich von Schiller 1759-1805, German dramatist and poet

To trust everybody is as disasterous as to distrust everybody.
Hesiodus ca 700BC, Greek epic poet

Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus 1913-1960, French author and philosopher. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
Cicero 106BC-43BC, Roman orator, politician and philosopher

It is not because it is so difficult that we do not try something, it is because we do not try that makes something so difficult.
Seneca 4BC-65AC, Roman writer and moralist

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter, American business humorist

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Stephen R. Covey, American management guru

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn`t happen.
Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British prime minister and writer

Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, German poet, novelist and dramatist

Take the first step in faith. You do not have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr 1929-1968, American pastor and fighter for civil rights

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British prime minister and writer