Decision Making Quotes

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

~ Ted Cadsby

Wait and see the steps you should or should not have taken, and you shall understand patience and impatience better!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.

~ Robert E. Davis

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

~ Auliq Ice

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.

~ Kevin Michel

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

~ Kathleen Norris

Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them, keep making them until you are confident in what you see.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.

~ Michael A. Wood Jr.

It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one—which is what happens most of the time.

~ Neel Burton

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

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

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.

~ Paulo Coelho

It's up to you, not fate.

~ David Levithan

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?

~ Ahdaf Soueif

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

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.

~ Connie Kerbs

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.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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.

~ Ted Cadsby

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

~ Deborah J. Levine

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

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

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.

~ Michael Lewis

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.

~ Michael Lewis

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.

~ Michael Lewis

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

~ Tahereh Mafi

Judgment and decision making are often considered together.

~ Pearl Zhu

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

~ Israt Ali

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

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.

~ Andy Stanley

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

~ Lyndon Johnson

You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing, it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.

~ Andy Stanley

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

~ Andy Stanley

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

~ William Stafford

It is highly important to learn to become a good critical thinker, so that you could effectively govern your daily decisions and actions. This would surely prevent you from allowing others to control your mind, and possibly mislead you in life.

~ Hafiz

Have you ever truly, keenly felt like you don't know who you are? Do you ever do something and think, Who is at the controls? Like some mad pilot has locked you out of the cockpit? I definitely do. I feel a kind of vertigo that makes me shake afterwards. I guess we all feel it when making a difficult-seeming choice, and sometimes you seriously don't know what you want because you don't know who you're supposed to be, or who you want to be. Physics, my first and second families, my philosophy degree, had all failed to help me answer that question. The former has led me to wonder whether I am one of an infinite number of Alices in multiple universes. A quantum fuck-up, which is someone who fucks up in every one of those universes but in different ways.

~ Olivia Sudjic

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

~ J.r. Rim

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 very simple, just look at your life to see where you're heading. You're always in a momentum of something.

~ Maria Erving

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.

~ Dan Ariely

Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel