Decision Making Quotes

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

The only certainty is uncertainty

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

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.

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

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Decision-making is lonely.

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.

Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making

There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.

Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

Impossible to see, the future is.

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.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making.

The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

Keep your money in the first place. Let's make our companies competitive and let's make good business decisions dominate their decision making, not what's good for Washington carve outs.