Decision Making Quotes

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.

Daniel Kahneman

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Journalism can be lethal

Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

Pearl Zhu

The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.

Pearl Zhu

Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.

Pearl Zhu

Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.

Pearl Zhu

It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.

Pearl Zhu

Habits aren’t destiny. Habits can be ignored, changed, or replaced. But the reason the discovery of the habit loop is so important is that it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit—unless you find new routines—the pattern will unfold automatically.

Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

Freedom of will is born from the neurons. And that freedom allows you to sometimes make even the worst decisions ever in your life. And by making the worst decision, you simply learn what would be the better decision in future.

In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.

Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)

Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

He taught me how small, day-by-day decisions add up to the great consequences and that every thoughtful and educated decision I made about my life would eventually lead me to a clear and more satisfying understanding of my calling.

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...[it is] quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion.

Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.

Nkem Paul

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

don't even leap to actions and decisions before you've found that sense of natural calm, well-being, or enthusiasm.

Frederick Dodson

There comes a point in your life when you have to take a decision, firm one. You take it, stick to it, execute it. You might alienate some people with your decision but as long as you know the decision is right there is nothing to be concerned about. If you have the slightest doubt that the decision was wrong and it has done more harm than good, you must rectify. If you are sure the decision was absolutely right then you need not be worried about the people you alienated, you are better off without them in your life.If people cannot appreciate you for what you are, you don't need their drama in your life.

Life is what you make of it.You have to decide what you want in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the end you only answer to yourself!

Ryk Brown

A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions.

You should never make a decision the day before your period.

Miranda J. Barrett

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

None of us plan--or intend--to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.

In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions.

A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIPWhenever you're called on to make up your mind,and you're hampered by not having any,the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,is simply by spinning a penny.No -- not so that chance shall decide the affairwhile you're passively standing there moping;but the moment the penny is up in the air,you suddenly know what you're hoping.

Piet Hein

A man making decisions on another man’s life should have already made up his mind about his own.

Good decision-making is like playing chess and you must avoid making hasty decisions without thinking of how that particular decision will impact on different aspects of your work and organization. The worst kind of decision-making is to decide to delay a difficult decision until later or to pass it to someone else to have to make. You will never excel and be valued by your colleagues if you get into these habits of procrastination and passing responsibility to others.

Nigel Cumberland

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Once I make a decision, I stick to it.

By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.

She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge on its way towards Wexford, Eilis imagined the years already when these words would come to mean less and less to the man who heard them and would come to mean more and more to herself. She almost smiled at the thought of it, then closed her eyes and tried to imagine nothing more.

Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity.

Auliq-Ice

Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

Robert K. Greenleaf

My hunch is that as the importance of a decision grows, the tendency to rely on quantitative analyses done by others tends to shrink. When the championship or the future of the company is on the line, managers tend to rely on their gut instincts.

Richard H. Thaler

I’m not leaving the plane that way,” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice—a third place that is neither “have to” or “want to.” That discovery freed me to move forward to make two other choices: I’m not going to be kicked out of this plane; and If I’m going to leave this plane, it will be under my own power. I’m going to maximize my chances of a safe exit. The change in my feelings at that moment was quite dramatic. Stress was replaced with purposeful action; a sense of victimhood was transformed into empowerment. There was no hesitation, no ambivalence.

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

...God is not dead; he really does communicate today. He's interested in every part of your life, your home, your finances, every kind of decision - and more than just the moral issues. His eye is always on you. He wants to lead you. But you have to believe that he will indeed speak to you when you wait before him in believing prayer, with a yielded heart to do his will.

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

Elton Trueblood

Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.

Linda Fisher Thornton

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

David Pietrusza

Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.

Michael J. Marx

Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.

Michael J. Marx

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important reason for obeying the law. By obeying the law, I can contribute to the respect in which the established decision procedure and the laws are held. By disobeying, I set an example to others that may lead them to disobey too.

Be decisive and handle objections as they come, don't relay on others much and don't look to others to determine if you're acting right or wrong. Do what feels right for you.

Auliq-Ice

Integrity is the ability of being honest and having strong moral principles and values, which reflect in our character.Decide to work in integrity and uprightness of hearts that is the price to be paid for you to realise your vision.

Prince Akwarandu

Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life.

A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.

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