Decision Making Quotes - Page 5

• This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

  Kristen Stewart

  Who I Am, Decision, Choices

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• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.

  Elias Canetti

  Decision, Disaster, Ifs

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• Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.

  Robert G. Allen

  Life, Money, Disappointment

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart.

  Embeth Davidtz

  Real, Lying, Heart

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• I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

  Charles Schumer

  Decision, Care, Insurance Companies

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• There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

  Golda Meir

  War, Differences, Decision

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• Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

  Judd Nelson

  Hero, Decision, Happens

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• That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Cost Benefit Analysis, Law

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• But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

  Barney Frank

  Decision, Etc, Poor

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• What is necessary is never unwise.

  Ben Cross

  Decision, Unwise

  "Fictional chaacter: Sarek". "Star Trek", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Suicide, Men, Decision

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• You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

  Ric O'Barry

  Decision, Want, Activist

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• In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

  Woody Allen

  Marriage, Funny Love, Best Love

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• But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

  Hugh Mackay

  Life Changing, Decision, Bigger

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• One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Optimism, Decision

  "Daniel Kahneman: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with Michael Schrage, www.strategy-business.com. 2003.

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• We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

  Andy Stanley

  Impact, Decision, Moments

  Andy Stanley (2014). “Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions”, p.38, Multnomah

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• The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of information sharing to such an extent that many groups can work in concert with one another without the need to achieve monolithic consensus.

  Naomi Klein

  Information Sharing, Decision, Groups

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• Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

  Denis Waitley

  Family, Children, Parenting

  "Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences - to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve". Book by Lanna Nakone, April 4, 2006.

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• It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

  Tom Hardy

  What Matters, Decision, Plans

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• If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, Decision, Process

  "A very bad business" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

  William Pollard

  Decision, Good Decision, Knows

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• Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Leadership, Inspiration

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• Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

  Les Brown

  Decision, Challenges, Majors

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• A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

  Marianne Williamson

  Teaching, Humility, Responsibility

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• The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Leadership, Keys, Decision

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