Quotes About Group Decisions

#1. One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

James Surowiecki

#2. Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.

John C. Maxwell

#3. Thus was parliamentary democracy finally interred in Germany. Except for the arrests of the Communists and some of the Social Democratic deputies, it was all done quite legally, though accompanied by terror. Parliament

William L. Shirer

#4. What it comes down to for me is that I'd rather us make bad decisions as a group, than to live in the absence of freedom.

Blake Crouch

#5. The research shows that groups of friends who allow members to disagree and still be friends are more likely to come to better decisions. So the next time you are in a group of people trying to reach consensus, be the asshole. Every group needs one, and it might as well be you.

David McRaney

#6. By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

Deepak Chopra

#7. My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

Bill Gates

#8. What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to,

Rick Santorum

#10. If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being
making advice, not
be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

George W. Bush

#11. Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

John Selden

#12. She shook her head and almost laughed. 'My reaction was a little stronger than 'crap,' Rose. Do you have any idea what you've done?

Richelle Mead

#13. I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Shimon Peres

#14. No one played devil's advocate, a figure that every group needs to avoid foolish or even disastrous decisions like this. It was reminiscent of President John Kennedy's "disastrous" decision to invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs fiasco.11

Philip G. Zimbardo

#15. You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.

Randy Carlyle

#16. I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

Bobby Brown

#17. Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.

George Ayittey

#18. 'Plutona' is the story of five kids who find the body of the world's greatest superhero in the woods after school one day. It's about how this discovery, and the decisions they make, affect them as a group and individually.

Jeff Lemire

#19. My faith in God is a huge part of my life, and yeah He has blessed me with an amazing family, and group of friends. In the Bible he tells us to think positively about ourselves, to not be down on ourselves. So I just try to live the way He wants me to, and make the best decisions I can.

Bethany Hamilton

#20. Those who lead are able to do so because those who follow trust that the decisions made at the top have the best interest of the group at heart.

Simon Sinek

#21. Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term.

Eoin Colfer