Decision Making Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Decision, Doe, Debt

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• This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.

  Steve Ballmer

  Decision, Leader, Innovation

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• The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Self, Decision

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• Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.

  Charles Duhigg

  Jobs, Agency, Giving

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.151, Random House

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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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• 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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• Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

  Michael Eisner

  Decision, Emotion, Balanced

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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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• Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

  William Stafford

  Decision, Life Is, Distraction

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• For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing.

  Esther Hicks

  Art, People, Decision

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• Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Long, Decision

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.

  Tim Ferriss

  Self, Decision, Examination

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Decision, Plan B, Plans

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• My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

  Juliette Lewis

  Focus, Decision, World

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• Things rarely turn out the way we want them to.

  Robert De Niro

  Decision, Want, Way

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• You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Giving, Decision, Damn

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• I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.

  Mookie Wilson

  Jobs, Decision, Roles

  Mookie Wilson, Erik Sherman (2014). “Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets”, p.134, Penguin

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