Decision Making Quotes - Page 2

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

Stephen L. Carter

Sometimes, you may take a step backwards only to realize that a step forward could have been the best choice. Sometimes, you may take a step forward only to notice that a step backwards could have been better; and sometimes, you may only come to a later understanding that stepping aside could have been a great choice, but in all, before you take a step, ponder! The footprint of whatever step is what matter and it must be distinctive

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to be removed from explanations of the process of life or society in the seventeenth century, and although there may be a nod towards astrology or the crossed finger today, superstition is not seriously used in decision making. ... Scientific thinking, which similarly developed in the seventeenth century, has been influential in bringing this change. We now see that tornadoes and earthquakes have rational explanations in terms of climatology and seismology rather than as divine punishments. Most people when deciding whether to take a new job, embark on a divorce, or simply plan a holiday will not seek divine guidance, but rather discuss with themselves or others the issues of cause and effect.

I may not know why, but I do know why not and this is where I stand.

J.R. Rim

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision.

Daniel Englisch

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself.

Ken Kesey

It is a choice, and therefore within the province of economics.

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Mad and sad is a good mix for poor decisions.

Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.

My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.

Auliq-Ice

With your own wish and desires, never accept alternative offered chances, only stand strong to making your own choice into reality. You will stand a chance to be what you wish to be with your own words.

Auliq-Ice

you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?

Donna Lynn Hope

Whenever it comes to decision making, Remember the part about having confidence.

Auliq-Ice

Decision, Decision, Decision!Choices, Choices, Choice.!Decision and choices define life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge.

Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Following imprinting, valuations become locally coherent, as the consumer attempts to reconcile future decisions of a "similar kind" with the initial one. This creates an illusion of order, because consumers' coherent responses to subsequent changes in conditions disguise the arbitrary nature of the initial, foundation choice.

Oftentimes, the most important decisions are the most difficult to make - for, your future, and the future of the generations that come after you, hinges on the outcome of those decisions.

J.E.B. Spredemann

It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right.

J.R. Rim

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

William Stafford

Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.

Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis

Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Traditional ways to deal with information--reading, listening, writing, talking--are painfully slow in comparison to "viewing the big picture." Those who survive information overload will be those who search for information with broadband thinking but apply it with a single-minded focus.

Kathryn Alesandrini

Decision Without Thinking is Like a Body Without Head...

Israt Ali

Judgment and decision making are often considered together.

Pearl Zhu

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they felt that it was more likely to happen. The sheer volatility of people's judgement of the odds--their sense of the odds could be changed by two hours in a movie theater--told you something about the reliability of the mechanism that judged those odds.

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky] suggested, is likely to warp their judgement of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination.

You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything all at once. That's when you need to stop and check your thinking...Beware of the delirious guy in the emergency unit with the long history of alcoholism, because you will say, 'He's just drunk,' and you'll miss the subdural hematoma.

It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are the products of careful deliberation and that our specific moral acts, such as deciding to give to charity or visit a friend in the hospital—or for that matter, deciding to shoplift or shout a racist insult out of a car window—are grounded in conscious decision-making. But this is said to be mistaken. As Jonathan Haidt argues, we are not judges; we are lawyers, making up explanations after the deeds have been done. Reason is impotent. "We celebrate rationality," agrees de Waal, "but when push comes to shove we assign it little weight.

Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.

Julie Ann Elliott-Morton

Quick decisions made in anger, usually end in regret.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

Don’t jump on the bandwagon just because everyone’s doing so.

Auliq-Ice

If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

Deborah J. Levine

Oversimplifying is the first grave mistake we make when confronted by complexity; overconfidence is the second. And there is a third: based on our overconfidence in our oversimplified conclusions, we overreact.

It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.

Doubt, fear and helplessness will always try to flourish when we are in a holding pattern for too long. The best defense – is to just do something. Anything positive! Something healthy! Get moving! Get busy! Often, this is the only way to calm the inner storm. Even more often, this is the only way the best course of action will finally find us ready to unveil itself to us.

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.

Agatha Christie

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

It's up to you, not fate.

Now she knew where to find me, if it was written that we would meet again, we would. The important thing is to allow fate to intervene in our lives and to decide what is best for everyone.

Sometimes, the only cost to experience an ecstatic moment is a decision

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Kathleen Norris

It is well understood in psychology that the subconscious mind has the dominant influence on human decision making, and therefore the pivotal role of the subconscious, for you to achieve success, is inescapable.

If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope.

Auliq-Ice

Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.

Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.

Israelmore Ayivor

Never fall in love with anything life throws at you. You have what it takes to colour your environment with the right decisions at the right time!

Israelmore Ayivor

So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and things they were yet to do!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

Tom Rath

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