Actions Quotes Logo

Decision-making Quotes

Journalism can be lethal

Picture of Robert Fisk
Robert FiskThe Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

"It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny."

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a de...

Show More

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - o...

Show More

If we let the men talk about them and decide them, then suddenly we wake up and find out that the me...

Show More
Picture of Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall SmithThe Kalahari Typing School for Men

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its ...

Show More
Picture of Amartya Sen
Amartya SenThe Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realitie...

Show More
Picture of Amit Ray
Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone ...

Show More

When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee...

Show More

She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge o...

Show More

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful...

Show More

Characteristics of System 1: • generates impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by S...

Show More

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to ge...

Show More
Picture of David Allen (author)
David Allen (author)Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray yo...

Show More

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the un...

Show More
Picture of Deepak Chopra
Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds...

Show More
Picture of Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...

Show More
Picture of Jared Diamond
Jared DiamondWhy Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk ...

Show More

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECIS...

Show More
Picture of John Irving
John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any de...

Show More

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and ...

Show More
Picture of Ken Kesey
Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they ...

Show More

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct the...

Show More
Picture of Michael Lewis (author)
Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and p...

Show More
Picture of Michael Lewis (author)
Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that...

Show More
Picture of Michael Lewis (author)
Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men wh...

Show More

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information unti...

Show More

It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death...

Show More

Now she knew where to find me, if it was written that we would meet again, we would. The important t...

Show More

A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions.

A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – ...

Show More

Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important...

Show More