Decision Making Quotes - Page 19

• We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.

  Margaret Chan

  Agency, Organization, Voice

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• Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence.

  David Allen

  Blow, Decision, Feelings

  "'Getting Things Done' Guru David Allen on Organizing Your Life". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. March 25, 2009.

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• I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can trust what that guy's sense of right and wrong will be. Even in a vigilante movie, where you are going against the law by definition, you still want to agree with the fact that your character is breaking the law.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Hero, Believe, Character

  "Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura Talks the Challenge of Rebooting the Franchise, Casting Chris Pine, and More on the Set of JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 6, 2014.

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• I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

  Carl Rogers

  Mistake, Educational, Thinking

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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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• The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Government, Decision, Velocity

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• Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.

  Melinda Gates

  Rights, Self, Water

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent senior officials from freelancing, or putting their departmental interests first. For all the formal machinery, Eisenhower was very literally the commander in chief, making the key decisions himself and monitoring closely how they were carried out. Even years after D-Day, when critics needled him for not being on the front lines with the invading forces, he retorted, “I planned it and took responsibility for it. Did you want me to unload a truck?

  Nancy Gibbs

  Senior, Running, Responsibility

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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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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• There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Names, Organization, Decision

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

  Emily Oster

  Thinking About You, Decision, Firm

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

  Jack Dangermond

  Knowing, Decision, Essentials

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