Decision Making Quotes - Page 19

• A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Decision, Desperate, Monk

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• One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

  Laszlo Bock

  Data, People, Giving

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• [Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She's talking to me.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Talking, Decision, Challenges

  "In Hillary's Footsteps: Kirsten Gillibrand". Vogue, November 2010.

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• It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the ruin, if women had the "power"; if political leadership, decision making, government and economic life was in the hands of women. I think reality, the observation material, supports the assumption.

  Pentti Linkola

  Reality, Thinking, Government

  "Women As The Protectors Of Life II". Essay by Pentti Linkola, 1996.

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• I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

  Orson Welles

  Decision, Mind, Done

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• When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Simple, People

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

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• You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

  Ben Wheatley

  Long, Decision, Way

  "Ben Wheatley: master of the macabre". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that’s a real success story for us.

  Mike Johanns

  Country, Real, Animal

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.

  Mimi Pond

  Two, Evil, Decision

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

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• Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

  Jim Leach

  Decision, Doe, Certitude

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• 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.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Gambling, Essence, Decision

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Hands, Decision

  Barack Obama's Speech on Job Creation and Economic Growth, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 8, 2009.

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• My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Opportunity, Choices

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Military, War, Gender Gap

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• while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Thinking, Play

  Mary Parker Follett (1977). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”, Buccaneer Books

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

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Differences, Decision

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• Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

  Steven Johnson

  Organization, Empowering, Decision

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• The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

  Emily Oster

  Keys, Data, Decision

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• Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Decision, Answers

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

  David Perlmutter

  Decision, Behavior, Currents

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• The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

  Murray Rothbard

  Men, Gun, Hands

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

  Jacques Bertin

  Decision, Moments, Ends

  Jacques Bertin (1981). “Graphics and Graphic Information Processing”, p.16, Walter de Gruyter

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

  Marvin Bower

  Decision, Facts, Should

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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

  Cory Doctorow

  Mistake, Decision, Rational

  YouTube Channel "UNC-Chapel Hill"/"Cory Doctorow: Pwned: How Copyright turns us all into IP ser", October 11, 2007.

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• We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.

  Ann Druyan

  Technology, Thinking, Decision

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

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