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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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• 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 most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Future, Mean

  "Les Faux Monnayeurs". Book by André Gide, Pt. 3, ch. 16, 1925.

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• Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.

  Surya Das

  People, Decision, May

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• Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Decision, Inquiry

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• That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "Walk The Line - Reese Witherspoon interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.77, Hachette UK

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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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• Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Decision, Principles

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.69, Lantern Books

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• I was working with actors who were very easy to work with, but I can just imagine how, with all the other decision-making problems that come up along the way, in addition to that, the whole point of what your doing is following performance and character development. You're building your story with those building blocks, and it is not easy. I've only come out with more respect for directors, from this.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Block, Character, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hands, Careers, Decision

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• It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

  Seth

  Business, Decision, Limbo

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• As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.

  Jacque Fresco

  Air, Self, Water

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.

  Tony Dungy

  Successful, Play, Decision

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

  Peter Drucker

  Views, Decision, Doe

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• And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

  Kevin Kelly

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

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• There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.

  John McCain

  Rights, Decision, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• ...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.

  Leroy S Rouner

  Teaching, College, Love Is

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• I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

  Matt Damon

  Jobs, Decision, Bigs

  "Matt Damon: where did it all go right for the leftwing activist, devoted dad and intelligent action star?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2013.

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• I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

  Chris Paine

  Thinking, Views, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.

  Zainab Salbi

  Decision, Levels, Planning

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.

  Zainab Salbi

  Order, Issues, Decision

  "'War is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, www.truth-out.org. June 7, 2011.

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• Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who he thinks is like him in many important ways? It was a noble and sensible decision.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Decision, Important

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