Decision Making Quotes - Page 6

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

  Simon Sinek

  Decision, Looks

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2012

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• Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Men, Decision, Information

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• There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

  John Wayne

  Decision, May, Hats

  "Fictional character: Davy Crockett". "The Alamo", 1960.

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• You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Decision, Census

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• Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

  Jack Welch

  Simple, Design, Decision

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

  Zainab Salbi

  Views, Different Experiences, Diversity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

  Elizabeth Dole

  People, Decision, Listening

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• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Choices, Attention

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• Just a recognition of the reality of decision-making and the state of play in the government of Israel.

  Richard Boucher

  Reality, Government, Israel

  "Quartet's Mideast road map '99.5 percent' done" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. December 20, 2002.

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• Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Decision

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• People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

  William Hague

  People, Decision, Needs

  Foreign policy forum in Berlin, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 23, 2012.

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• On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Decision, President

  "Mitt Romney's Florida Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2012.

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• One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Business, Failure, Action

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• When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically.

  Charles Duhigg

  Fighting, Focus, Decision

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.20, Random House

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• Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

  Charles Duhigg

  Choices, Decision, Each Day

  "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February, 2012.

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• I do like our young talent here, but it needs to get better. And we need some better veterans if we can go out and get them. We all get discouraged by losing. I sit there every game and see the little things that happen and you feel like they cost you games. But the reality is that we are still some time away from being what I hope we can be. And that's going to take some good decision-making on our part.

  John Paxson

  Reality, Games, Decision

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• Athletes are always talking about money at a time when everyone else is struggling so badly to make it. We all make way more than our fair share. And I just think it reflects poorly on myself and my teammates. I really do just want to win, and that has and will continue to be the reason that motivates me and is the biggest factor in my decision-making process.

  Tom Brady

  Struggle, Athlete, Winning

  "Tom Brady: Contract about winning", www.espn.com. February 27, 2013.

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• If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges.  Do you understand that?  So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources.  If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials.  People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Country, Technology

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• The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Data, Doe

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.11, Routledge

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• The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.

  Aruna Roy

  Strength, Responsibility, People

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• When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

  George S. Patton

  Decision, Made, Right Time

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• All models are wrong, but some are useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

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• Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Determination, Decision

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 27, 2014

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• Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

  William Arthur Ward

  Success, Business, Positivity

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.

  Thomas Sowell

  Freedom, People, Decision

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