Alan Lewis Quotes

Different refs judge fights differently.

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.

We don't want to make a mistake. Would you rather make the mistake and err on the side of caution or wait until something happens and then answer to the American people, why you didn't vet these people properly?

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

Your guess is as good as mine. Better probably, because you haven't had four beers.

Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.

When you're dealing with subjective matters, there's no wrong or right answer, it's just, "What do we think is best for the show?"

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

I find it difficult to say, like "which child do you prefer the most", and its a sort of surface choice. I've never known how to quite answer that one adequately.

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Your decisions reveal your priorities

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

We have to make the right decisions.