Ricky Ponting Quotes

To make a good decision, you actually need to think about it, the contours and the consequences.

You have to make your decision based on the content.

I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

Most decisions don't require extensive research.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

I have studied the situation gravely and I think I understand it well.

The game is about making the right decisions.

You try to make the decisions that you think are best in realtime.

Reasons come first. Answers come second

First thoughts are not always the best.

If you judge, investigate.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.