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• The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Decision, Looking Forward

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• All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

  Joshua Ferris

  Heart, Poor Decisions, Broken

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• Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

  Cordelia Fine

  Attitude, Self, Objectivity

  Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.54, Icon Books Ltd

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• This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

  David Brooks

  Love Is, Emotional, Order

  "Social Animal". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost spiritual way to photograph. Life isn't’ knocking you around, life isn't controlling you. You have picked your place, you’ve picked your scene, you’ve picked your light, you’ve done all the decision making and you are waiting for the moment to come to you.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Spiritual, Philosophy

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.

  John Rarick

  Government, Order, Influence And Power

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• It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Business, Decision

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• If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.

  Gerald Holton

  Freedom, Self, Views

  "Where is Science Taking Us? Gerald Holton Maps the Possible Routes". The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 18, 1981.

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• We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don't reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making at work rather, we put the blow torch on the one moment when it doesn't work and something goes wrong.

  Rob Long

  Mistake, Blow, Decision

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• Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

  Paul Newman

  Yesterday, Choices, Tomorrow

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• Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Nba, Decision

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• Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear.

  James Surowiecki

  Intelligent, Diversity, Decision

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• Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.

  Diane F. Halpern

  Memories, Mistake, Decision

  Diane F. Halpern (2002). “Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, 4th Edition”, p.340, Routledge

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• Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.

  Herman Chernoff

  Years, Data, Decision

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• A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Government, Justice, Decision

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• In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, People, Decision

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.129, Basic Books

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