Paulo Coelho Quotes

When in doubt, take the next step.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

When in doubt...shoe it out.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

Every time the country is in a crisis, I think and decide where is the best way to go. We have to always think of ways to overcome these limitations.

As a chess player I learn to adapt to new situations and always try to make the best move without looking back or asking why and how I ended up in a situation I ended up in.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use problem-solving; what we call "what-if-ing." What if this happened? What would we do? We go over plan B, C, D, E, F, and whatever else, depending on the criticality of what we're doing. This kind of thing can be applied almost everywhere, even at home.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

"What would I do if?.." By thinking tactically, we can more easily arrive at correct tactical solutions, and practice - even theoretical practice - tends to produce confidence in our solutions which, in turn, makes it easier for us, and thus quicker, to reach a decision.

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.