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

  Adam Fletcher

  People, Decision, Discrimination

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• Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

  Jenny Shipley

  Decision, Desire, Males

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• My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

  Laurie Anderson

  Jobs, People, Decision

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• Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Team, Decision, Needs

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• Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

  Willard Gaylin

  Blessed, Animal, Safety

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

  William Hague

  Decision, World, Diffusion

  "William Hague: 'We have to build new alliances with the emerging powers'". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley, Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience

  1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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• To have an idea meritocracy, one needs to do three things. First, they have to put their honest thoughts on the table, for everyone to look at and everyone to work through. Second, they need to have thoughtful disagreement, by which there are quality exchanges, in which there's open mindedness and the realization that no one has all the right answers. And you can work through that and get to better answers because good collective decision making is better than any individual decision making. And third, you have to have ways of getting past the disagreements if they remain.

  Ray Dalio

  Thoughtful, Past, Decision

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and more qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.

  Howard Schultz

  Letting Go, Moving, Numbers

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• understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Decision, Understanding

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• To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

  T. D. Jakes

  Decision, Weakness, Tools

  T.D. Jakes (2012). “Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Won't Regret”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.

  Pam Houston

  Adventure, Heart, Years

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• Not everyone can be bribed with meat, Oberon." "They Can't? Oh! you mean they're vegetarian." "No, they eat meat. It just doesn't sway their decision making process." "Well that... that's just wrong, Atticus!Are they Monsters? It's like they have no moral center!

  Kevin Hearne

  Mean, Decision, Monsters

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1419, Del Rey

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• An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Business, People

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• Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Business, Mistake, Optimistic

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• There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

  Joseph Addison

  Business

  'The Drummer' (1716) act 5, sc. 1

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• Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

  Cullen Hightower

  Business, Agreement, May

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Business, Blow, Organization

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• Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Business, Creativity, Imagination

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• When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated powers given the federal government. Substituting democratic decision making for what should be private decision making is nothing less than tyranny dressed up.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Political, Decision

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• False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

  Jerome Groopman

  Real, Choices, Decision

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.130, Random House

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• For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

  Tim Ferriss

  Independent, Goal, Entrepreneur

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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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• The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

  Kenneth C. Frazier

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

  Biz Stone

  Careers, Design, Creative

  "What is Biz Stone doing?" by Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. April 5, 2009.

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