#decision

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#debts #decision #decision making #does #flow

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#becoming #central #decisions #guarantee #increasingly

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#decision #less #life-changing #like #more

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie. ↗

— Michael Madsen

#bad #buy #decision #done #few

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ↗

— Maimonides

#indecision #preferable #risk #terror #wrong

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#easier #lot #make #much #own

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#about #decisions #defence #economist #economy

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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