“Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - 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.” MenMayActionChoicesPayAttentionAcceptingCasesConsequenceResponsibleInvestingPay AttentionDecision MakingInner Life Author:W. H. Auden
“Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.” PoliticalDecisionParticularTypeSpeechConsequenceConsiderationCollectivesDecision MakingDeliberation Author:F. David Mathews
“One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.” WorldGoalDecisionSuccessfulEconomicCapitalismConsequenceRelationResponseDecision MakingCeo Author:Arthur Demarest