Mark Duplass Quotes

Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. The meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. People don’t need new facts—they need a new story.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

It's not that big a mystery about types. It's not even that big a mystery why so many people are picking up on things now. It's like we were talking about the primitive thing before and all that. Nothing has really changed much. The things that have changed are like we're on the noon now. There are more buildings now. But we're still basically two monkeys sitting here.

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

Many women feel it is natural to consult with their partners at every turn, while many men automatically make more decisions without consulting their partners.

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

I mean,he decided we'd be better apart,you know?it wasn't a joint decision.like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my life without consulting me,i'd better be dying and unconscious and you'd better be following carefully written instructions.

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through—usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.

I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or beat up? A man's world meant places men could go but not women. It meant they had more money,and didn't have kids, not the way women did, to look after every second. And it meant that women loved them more than they loved the women, that they could want something with all their hearts, and then not.

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

It is all here. You make the choice.

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl