“He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'” ThinkingWellsDecisionRepublicanLet MeMakersNewtsDecision Makers Author:Sheldon Adelson
“The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.” IfsBodyEasyDecisionGoneStageLet MeKneesRetiringOne For Me Author:Jo Durie
“My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let me go with someone else who he thought could take me to another level when he couldn't, and he was right. But they were in it for another reason. He was in it because he wanted to see me succeed no matter what, and he made decisions based on being a dad as opposed to a manager.” MadeMatterReasonWantedDecisionLevelsDadSucceedConcernedLet MeNo Matter WhatMy DadManagersTake MeLet Me GoBeing A Dad Author:Tanya Tucker
“My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.” HumansPlayBeliefDecisionPoorRolesTakenConsequenceNegativeLet MeBiggerFragilePayoffTrue And FalseAsymmetry Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“I think whenever you go through something of that nature, you get to see who's really on your side and who's really there for you. That happened in my case. And it really let me understand that no matter how small of a decision you make, it's going to have a subsequent action or reaction, and something that started out very innocent turned into the tragedy that it was.” ThinkingActionDecisionLet MeTragedyInnocent Author:Donte Stallworth
“I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.” TwoWarUseWinningDecisionPolicyLet MeUsing MeTobiasJakeInsurance Policy Author:Katherine Applegate
“Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.” MenWayTurnsFatherChristDecisionLet MeCrisisContactOne WayForks Author:Jim Elliot
“I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did.” SaidEnoughPlayAgeRememberSuccessMotherChanceDecisionLessonsLet MeQuittingGladPianoGood EnoughShockedFranklinPiano Lesson Author:Condoleezza Rice