“Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.” SelfPastDecisionEmotionalSolutionsTransformationExposedEmotional IntelligencePast Decisions Author:Peter Shepherd
“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.” RealitySeemsPastFallDecisionExistenceSituationVisionTakenStrangeAdvantageResponseIntuitionConvincedMoodRecognitionLogicalSignificanceSuspicionVentureStrainSequenceMy PastPast LifeImmediacyRetrospectiveNew Ventures Author:Ansel Adams
“Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.” PeopleHeartPastFatherDecisionRegretQuestioningLooking BackSpontaneousCan't ChangeCounterproductive Book:Slammed Source: Slammed
“For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.” ShouldYearsBelieveGovernmentAgePastI BelieveDecisionCompassionExtraordinaryPregnancyAdoptionInterfereAttorneyUnplanned Pregnancy Author:Ann McLane Kuster
“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.” MenWayGivingFactsHelpingPastValuesLeftWishDecisionSituationVisionDrawsRateConclusionExpertsLogicalAssistantsAdministratorsSecond RateVisions Of The FuturePresent Situation Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
“The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.” WayWholeProblemActionPastDecisionSupportTeachingTaughtLateEthicsAvailableDrivenManagersDataEnterpriseToo LateTaking ActionConsultants Author:Clayton Christensen
“Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.” IfsThinkingInspirationalDoePastCoursesDecisionDestinyUltimateBiographiesUltimate Power Author:Tony Robbins