Top 100 Making Decision Quotes
#1. He had not become a sentinel by worrying about what he should or shouldn't do. He would live or die as he always had, by making decision he knew to be right ...
Graydon didn't hide from life. He flew at it with everything he had.
Thea Harrison
#2. Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.
Anthony Stafford Beer
#3. How frequently do we rush through our day making decision after decision, touching lives in this way or that, with no thought of what corruption has tainted those decisions?
Jim Berg
#4. Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.
Sam Snead
#5. Understanding vibrations helps us in making decision for building positive circumstances within us instead of outside.
Hina Hashmi
#6. There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#7. He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him
Amos Oz
#8. We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life.
Lisa Hammond
#9. What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.
Paul Walker
#10. If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.
Mark Batterson
#11. Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes the financial plan and your mission.
Manoj Arora
#12. When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as your destiny. The more you pay attention and practice intuitive decision making skills, the better you will become at sensing the unique rhythm of your life.
Paul O'Brien
#13. A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.
Edwin Louis Cole
#14. When you are having trouble making a decision or are at a crossroads in your life and are confused about which path to take, cry out to God and ask for His guidance.
Jacklyn Zeman
#15. The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.
Eugene Jarecki
#16. People who to back and chastise themselves, or second guess themselves, for making a wrong decision or a weak decision continues to set themselves up for failure in future decisions simply because they don't trust themselves.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#17. Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
David Blunkett
#18. To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#20. Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.
Emily Oster
#21. The injunction that before making a final decision in any matter one should sleep on it for a night is obviously fully justified.
Sigmund Freud
#22. None of us plan
or intend
to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.
Andy Stanley
#23. Men and women do make decisions wherever the Gospel is proclaimed; whether publicly or privately, some say yes, some say no, and some procrastinate. No one ever hears the Gospel proclaimed without making some kind of decision!
Billy Graham
#24. People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.
Frederick Lenz
#26. 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
#27. Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.
Joseph M. Juran
#29. We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.
Marco Rubio
#30. Decision making is the specific executive task.
Peter Drucker
#31. I heartily respect and appreciate when people say their life is quite eventful. There are chapters in the book of life. Some chapters interests people and some grab only our attention in simple little stanzas.
Rachana Shakyawar
#32. I wanted to leave my decision-making behind, along with my responsibility for all future ones.
Hugh Howey
#33. When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.
Tony Krantz
#34. Many have made a decision to believe in Jesus without making a commitment to follow Jesus.
Kyle Idleman
#35. Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.
Andy Stanley
#36. Be sure to see that the first few pages have the reader on the edge of his seat, unable to put the book down. Most editors only have time to read a few pages before making a decision; make those pages memorable!
Judith Saxton
#37. Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.
Shannon L. Alder
#38. If we let fear control our decision making we always make the wrong decision.
Butch Bellah
#39. Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.
Ruth Hubbard
#40. Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they're not. They're habits.
Charles Duhigg
#41. He was the worst decision she'd made so far, but she couldn't keep from making it again and again.
Maggie Stiefvater
#42. We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.
Bill Cahan
#43. First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh.
Jaromir Jagr
#44. Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#45. On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
Mitt Romney
#46. That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have a president that can consult with congress before making big decisions. That doesn't just make a unilateral decision to go in for military conflict.
Charles R. Chamberlain
#47. Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
Peter Singer
#48. The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.
Douglas Feith
#49. In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.
Andy Serkis
#50. You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.
Joan Didion
#51. Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.
Roy Bennett
#53. Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn
#54. He wasn't looking at me, and I wasn't looking at him. "Sometimes I wonder if you make decisions just to piss me off."
I glared at the road. "Sometimes I wonder if you give yourself too much credit in my decision-making.
Catherine Doyle
#55. Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.
Grover Norquist
#56. He was awake enough to wonder if he'd been making bad decisions for his entire life. If he'd been a bad decision, himself, even before he was born.
Maggie Stiefvater
#57. We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded with tweets, with emails - a state of continuous disruption - and that's bad for our decision making and bad for our thinking.
Noreena Hertz
#58. The WHY exists in the part of the brain that controls feelings and decision-making but not language. WHATs exist in the part of the brain that controls rational thought and language.
Simon Sinek
#59. Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.
Howard Da Silva
#60. Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.
Noreena Hertz
#61. The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
Emily Oster
#62. When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.
Kathleen Norris
#63. Some choices we make for people around and some decisions we take for thyself!
Rachana Shakyawar
#64. Every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.
Jane Goodall
#65. Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.
Thomas Sowell
#66. With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.
K.P. Yohannan
#67. Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.
Michael J. Marx
#68. When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#69. Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.
Nkem Paul
#70. behaviors; clinical interviewing; informed decision making; listening
John L. Coulehan
#71. Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.
Josh Kaufman
#72. I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.
Fred W. Friendly
#73. No decision should be made on an empty shopping bag.
Donita K. Paul
#74. 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
#75. The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.
Nina Jacobson
#76. I was making the decision to do this work because this work, to me, was a sacred thing.) Lucy
Paul Kalanithi
#77. If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art.
Gerard Way
#78. Making the decision to leave Valve strikes me as right up there with turning down the throne to Narnia, but then call me an idealist, and I guess I probably wouldn't want to spend my whole life making new hats for Team Fortress 2 either.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#79. I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.
Agatha Christie
#80. Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.
Ezra Taft Benson
#81. In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.
David Pietrusza
#82. Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?
Donna Lynn Hope
#83. You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn't date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.
Taylor Swift
#85. Just a recognition of the reality of decision-making and the state of play in the government of Israel.
Richard Boucher
#86. There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.
Todd Stocker
#88. 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
#89. Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.
James Taranto
#90. When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.
Diane Ravitch
#91. And now I'm different. Probably because I'm making the decision to do what I want. I never realized how much I let everyone else decide what I'm going to do.
Anonymous
#92. The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.
Emily Saliers
#93. Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.
Henry Ford
#94. You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.
Joel Barker
#95. You are defined by the decisions you make. When one bites you in the ass the way you respond to it either makes or breaks you.
Benjamin Bayani
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.
Susan Polgar
#99. As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.
Matt Mullenweg
#100. The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
Bill Vaughan
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