Decision Making Quotes - Page 20

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

  Jack Dangermond

  Knowing, Decision, Essentials

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• There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

  Cindy Gallop

  Children, Decision, Realization

  "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Girl, Responsibility, Government

  "Making cities safe for women and girls" by Michelle Bachelet, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Rights, Egypt, Decision

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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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• 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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• 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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• We've always done things the way we wanted to. It's true that our experience affects some of our decision making, but that's a part of growing up and evolving as a band and as people. The first five or six years were really rough. We had no money. We were lost and crazy and made mistakes, but we learned a lot and suffered through tough times, and I think what we did reflected where we were and who we are.

  Jared Swilley

  Growing Up, Crazy, Mistake

  "Jared Swilley of Black Lips". Interview with AVC, music.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.

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• I fell like a lot of times, when I write a song, it is coming from an introspective perspective that my faith always kind of factors. Faith is either part of what factors in to my decision making, or it is part of what factors into my fears and my doubts. It is either the positive or the negative part of it that is afflicting me during times of conflict, which is normally when you write songs about yourself when you find some sort of conflict or you are seeking some sort of resolution.

  Matt Thiessen

  Song, Writing, Perspective

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know.

  Edmund Pellegrino

  Knowledge, Science, Data

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• The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

  Erich Fromm

  Decision, Citizens, Littles

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of individually negligible emissions of an invisible, odorless gas, by billions of people all over the world.

  Dale Jamieson

  People, Decision, Fundamentals

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also a lot of symmetry. They each have their own biorhythms from a motherly embrace to tempestuous wrath. What I love about being out in nature is that you are at the mercy of your own decision making.

  Travis Rice

  Ocean, Wrath, Decision

  Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

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• The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus, teamwork etc. All that team-involved decision-making often leads to tepid solutions and a slow-moving organization.

  Marty Nemko

  Teamwork, Moving, Organization

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk openly in the economics profession about irrationality in decision-making, I received a lot of criticism. Ginny would support my views and remind me that a whole other profession - psychology - studies people's irrational sides.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Views, Years, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Choices, Decision

  Elizabeth George (2011). “A Woman's High Calling: 10 Ways to Live Out God's Plan for Your Life”, p.171, Harvest House Publishers

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• The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Issues, Decision, Leaving

  "Opening Address At "Ceasefire! Bridging The Political Divide" Conference". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2007.

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• If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to come back to the question of governance. Excellence requires a firewall between trusteeship, or government ministries, and the academic decision-making process. This American concept of shared governance wherein the faculty are engaged in running the university as part of a collaboration with the other stakeholders.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Running, Government, Decision

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautiful land. The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice, for that would be crying "peace, peace, where there is no peace". God's Shalom, peace, involves inevitably righteousness, justice, wholeness, fullness of life, participation in decision-making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Laughter, Real

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God'' in it. I think that's an example of a judge allowing personal opinion to enter into the decision-making process, as opposed to strict interpretation of the Constitution.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, School, Thinking

  Presidential candidate debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Letting Go, Strong, Sleep

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Reality, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.

  Ban Ki-moon

  People, Effort, Decision

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• In a large pharmaceutical company, where it's a big bet, you're going to need finance people to be involved in the decision-making because the investment can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. You're going to have to run scenarios. You might even need agreement from the C.E.O. to make that type of decision. If it's an incremental, low-cost decision in a marketing-oriented company, it may be a very different set of stakeholders a lot further down in the organization.

  John Kao

  Running, Organization, Agreement

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Long, Decision, Waiting

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