Top 1200 Decision-Making Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.

I think 'American Sniper' is anti-war. It demonstrates the agony of the decision-making that goes on.

Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.

Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.

If you're an adult, if you are eligible to be drafted and vote, then there's a certain amount of decision-making power, and I think we have to be respectful of that.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

Fundamentally, adopting rules without any estimate of the impact is the height of arbitrary decision-making.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

Those who are close to me know that I am a person who likes to analyse everything before making a decision.

Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.

In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.

It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really remember making a decision to go into music, it was just there for me, always. If I weren't making a living at it, I'd still be writing music.

My job is exhilarating. It's challenging. I find that the governance part of it, the decision making part of it - actually comes - comes pretty naturally. I think I've got a great team. I think we're making good decisions. The the hardest thing about the job is staying focused. Because there's so many demands and decisions that are pressed upon you.

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in European institutions of higher learning was appealing to professors because it was democratic. But those institutions also suffered because they lacked an executive decision-making process; making changes became virtually impossible.

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

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.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

I am someone who takes a lot of time before making a decision and then has to be fully behind it.

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

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

Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.

We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

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.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.

I realise that I need to be selfish at times as well as smart in decision-making and just not throw away my wicket.

You can get together, you can talk as much as you want, but if there's not a decision-making process - that's where democracy really matters.

Heathrow expansion is an object lesson in the dominance of a rapacious sector of industry over government decision-making.

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

Gun skill is never the main reason why someone is talented at a game. It's literally their decision making.

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Look, for some players, pot odds should guide your decision making.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?

Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.

If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.

My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.

Most people sabotage themselves because they aren't mindful in the moment. Let your daily actions be governed by your goals & dreams. Whenever you are making an important decision first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away. If the answer is closer, pull the trigger. If it's farther away make a different choice. Conscious choice making is a critical step in making your dreams a reality.

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

Congress party talks about Dalits but does not involve them in important decision making process.

I think, for the good of the country and the fact that you don't want a question coming up every time there's a decision made, [Donald Trump] should basically take himself out of it and just be a passive participant in the sense that he has no decision-making, no involvement and no decisions get made separate from him. Which is the way the way it's done for more Cabinet offices. Or I think all Cabinet offices.

Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.