Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

- Mason Cooley

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

- Mason Cooley

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

- Mason Cooley

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

- Winston Churchill

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

- B.F. Skinner

I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them.

- Jay W. Lorsch

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

- Mason Cooley

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

- Sophocles

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

- Mary Pipher

You can't talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.

- Casey Hayden

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

- Abraham Lincoln

A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.

- Dianne Feinstein