Decision Making Quotes - Page 3

• You cannot make progress without making decisions.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Progress

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 10, 2017

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• Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

  Scott Adams

  Inspirational, Business, Long

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• You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

  Will Arnett

  Running, Decision, Firsts

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• When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

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• A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Powerful, Real

  Twitter post from Mar 02, 2016

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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• You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

  Anne Hathaway

  Choices, Live Your Life, Inspiring Movie

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• Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Leader

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• The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kings, Military, Party

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.125, Seven Stories Press

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• Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

  Jim Rohn

  War, Decision, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 22, 2017

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• As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

  Noam Chomsky

  Loss, Choices, Decision

  Television interview, 30 Mar. 1978, in Listener 6 Apr. 1978

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• You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  "Awaken The Giant Within". Book by Tony Robbins, 1991.

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• In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Choices, Decision, Important

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• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Powerful, Past

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

  Bette Davis

  Happiness, Weight Loss, Expectations

  "Great Thoughts to Sell By: Quotes to Motivate You to Success". Book by Gerhard Gschwandtner, 2007.

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• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  Peter Drucker

  Senior, Business, Mistake

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.9, Harvard Business Review Press

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• In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

  Roland Allen

  Decision, Doubt, Might

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.50, The Lutterworth Press

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• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

  Elias Canetti

  Eye, People, Decision

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• Decision making is the specific executive task.

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Tasks, Executives

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• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

  Napoleon Hill

  Decision, Earth, Succeed

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Indecision

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Lose The Day Loitering”

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• My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Decision, Principles, Right Decision

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• A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Choices, Decision, Peacefulness

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