Stacey Abrams Quotes

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.

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

You try to make the decisions that you think are best in realtime.

You have to make your decision based on the content.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

If you judge, investigate.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

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

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

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

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

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.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

Those split-second decisions that you can't take back, that's what I need to continue to improve.

I have to make sure I'm making the right play at the right time.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience