Quotes About Rational Decision Making

#1. It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

Cory Doctorow

#2. Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making

Jack Dangermond

#3. Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.

L. Jon Wertheim

#4. The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

Kenneth C. Frazier

#5. Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.

Roy Bennett

#6. We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

Dan Ariely

#7. A person who chooses to love his or her enemies can have no enemies. That person is left only with neighbors.

Preston Sprinkle

#8. For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

Angela Merkel

#9. So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and friendship,
And warmth will come to you.

Stephen Cosgrove

#10. I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

Zac Efron

#11. It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

Ziyi Zhang

#12. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Paul Gibbons

#13. I'm so glad I was born with estrogen and not testosterone. It makes decision-making and rational thought so much easier. I

Katie Graykowski

#14. Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

Douglas Coupland

#15. Instead of looking at leadership as decision making - as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures - a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

Frank J. Barrett

#16. Feelings should never supersede rational thought ... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.

Julie Ann Elliott-Morton

#17. I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

Bill Ackman

#18. When plan A and plan B are the same, plan C becomes irrelevant.

Benny Bellamacina

#19. Scripture is God speaking. Though the words they'd read had been penned more than a thousand years earlier, still God spoke in the reading of those words. Jesus held them accountable for the words of Scripture as if God Himself had spoken those words directly to them!

James R. White

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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