Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
George W. BushStupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan PoeThe ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Alan WattsA ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma GandhiWhen I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.
Jocko WillinkAs a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
Madeleine AlbrightI have too many clothes, I have too many options.
RihannaWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann HesseWhen things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
David ByrneInability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
John C. MaxwellTake care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard ShawThere are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. KennedyNever marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.
Jurgen KloppThe day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
Madeleine AlbrightIt is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
Kurt VonnegutWhy is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand RussellPeople need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Jim CarreyMy biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous HuxleyI don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
Richard P. FeynmanWorking out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas AdamsMen are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise PascalThere are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel JohnsonThe men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Andrew CarnegieIndecision may or may not be my problem.
Jimmy BuffettThere is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
Carl JungLet’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.
Joe BidenExample is leadership.
Albert SchweitzerThe superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
ConfuciusWe’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.
Brene BrownTo see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
ConfuciusMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalWhatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian TracyPeople always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill GatesBehavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily DickinsonHatred is settled anger.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘
Eckhart TolleNext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin DisraeliEvery mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
Kamala HarrisOne may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. MenckenWhat we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius CaesarOne of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.
Jocko WillinkI’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
Kanye WestI was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho MarxA director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘
George LucasAnything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles DickensThe more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark TwainThe thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
Vivienne WestwoodI left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.
Henry David ThoreauIf you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Henny YoungmanI am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.
Ruth Bader GinsburgYou can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
Jordan PetersonHaving unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
David ByrneSin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.
Pope FrancisWith Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.
Jocko WillinkIf you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
Ray BradburyI suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Charlie ChaplinYes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.
Conor McGregor