Decision Making Quotes

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

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.

~ Colm Tóibín

Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity.

~ Auliq Ice

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

~ Phil Dourado

Once I make a decision, I stick to it.

~ Susan Nussbaum

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Moe Cidaly

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

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

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

~ Amit Kalantri

A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions.

~ Paulo Coelho

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.

~ Andy Stanley

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

~ Andy Stanley

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

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.

~ Arti Honrao

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

~ Frederick Dodson

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

~ Bryant Mcgill

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

~ Nkem Paul

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

~ Unarine Ramaru

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.

~ Michael Lewis

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

~ Paul Gibbons

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

~ Paul Gibbons

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

~ Paul Gibbons

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

~ Paul Gibbons

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.

~ Amartya Sen

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.

~ Eric Motley

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.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

~ David J. Greer

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.

~ Charles Duhigg

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

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

Journalism can be lethal

~ Robert Fisk

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.

~ Julian Assange

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