Kirk Cousins Quotes

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don't know by what you do.

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

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

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

I think you live and learn each year, whether you're a head coach, coordinator, or business manager. You learn different things that work and different things that don't.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I want to make smart choices.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

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

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.