#dec

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment. ↗

— Tom Rath

#decision-making #business

Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy. ↗

— Daniel Clausen

#consequences #decisions #happiness #problems #sadness

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#best #colleges #costs #declining #foreign

The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy. ↗

— Simon Kuper

#economy #football-clubs #business

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#goals #life #sacrifice #change

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#influence #psychology #change

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#destiny #path #change

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#capacity #change #decision #every #excuse

When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#change #decisions #history #change

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#decisions #options #risk-taking #change