Decision-Making

“Every choice I’ve ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.”

“Progress rarely depends on certainty. It depends on judgement.”

“Now strategy comes naturally, effortlessly, and without formula.”

“Saya memikirkan ada (calon) yang layak, siang-siang saya cakap, saya tidak lagi mempertahankan jawatan (ketua wanita Umno).”

“Empathy is a kind of emotional state that makes you judge things more fairly.”

“We are always caught between bad choices and not too bad choices.”

“Die Kunst aber ist es zu sehen, welcher Spieler mal ein Lob braucht oder eher einen Tritt in den Hintern.”

“It is reason, not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.”

“It’s our duty to pinpoint the problems that may hold China’s reforms back from embarking on the right track.”

“Mankind, in following the present sense of their minds, in striving to remove inconveniencies, or to gain apparent and contiguous advantages, arrive at ends which even their imagination could not anticipate.”

“If you don't set a goal, it will just automatically follow your dominant thought.”

“You make a decision when you get married pero araw-araw pala kailangang mag-desisyon ka.”

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”

“I felt abhorred by myself. And that's what changed my mind.”

“In his view virtue lies not in caution in avoiding errors but in ruthlessness in eliminating them.”

“From now on I shall never touch this instrument again.”

“Nag-iisip din ako, kung babalik ako, anong mangyayari sa akin?”

“So you cannot base your business based on that.”