Chris Cleave Quotes

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Decide: To succumb to one set of influences over another set.

People and nations act on the basis of what they feel rather than what is real.

You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.

Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

I think so many things look like a penalty in slow motion.

Without our emotions, we can't make smart decisions.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

Whatever I see, I trust my eyes, trust my reads, trust the guys running routes and kind of just let it go.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

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

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

We all are just people, and something happens, and we make a decision as a result when something happens, and it could be a poor choice or a good choice or anywhere in between. But we make that decision in the moment, and we live with the consequences.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.

If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.