100 Quotes About Decision Making

In life, there are a lot of decisions that need to be made. There are important decisions that have to be made in every aspect of our lives from work to relationships. No matter what your decision is, it can be a difficult one. But the best decision making quotes will help you make the best choice.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many...
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. Victor Hugo
All you have to do is decide moment by moment...
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All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear. Dragos Bratasanu
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People will always tell you what they think you should or should not do. But your life is only between you and God. If you have doubts whether what you’re doing is right or wrong, before you make any decision, look up and ask God. You will always know the answer. Dragos Bratasanu
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Risk is one of the qualities of any good decision. This is so because, decision itself is a risk. Therefore, making a decision literally means, taking a risk... In tracing the histories of successful men and women, the first thing to notice in their lives is risk. Godspower Oparaugo
If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live...
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If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life. Mark Batterson
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There is a period of one to two earth years that humans are to refrain from making big decisions. It’s because you don’t always make the best decisions when you are grieving. Those who make decisions in haste often live to regret them. You must move through the time of suffering, strengthening your faith and being willing to grow through the grief in order to be able to see things differently. As you grow, your blind faith will continue to open your eyes. You will see everything in a whole new light when you come out the other side of grief. Then you will be able to make very good decisions for yourself, better than ever, because of what you learned. . Kate McGahan
No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in...
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No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in a soft-rich ground. Do not expect people to invest in you if you're a lazy type. Godspower Oparaugo
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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 OBrien
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The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result. Roshan Sharma
Don't hyperbolize when things don't flow according to your plan....
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Don't hyperbolize when things don't flow according to your plan. Things could change when you least expect it. And it is crucial to be flexible at all times. Aireen C. Pontillo
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If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience. If this sounds too mystical, refer again to the body. Every significant vital sign- body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on- alters the moment you decide to do anything… decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction. Deepak Chopra
The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms...
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The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition. Paul OBrien
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility...
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You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. Michelle Obama
Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin is accused of treason...
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Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin is accused of treason by war enthusiasts merely for suggesting budget adjustments to pay for war measures. Donald R. Hickey
I can always make up my mind better when there's...
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I can always make up my mind better when there's a man around, because I know the thing to do is just the opposite to what he says. Sophie Kerr
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When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience. Quin Hillyer
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At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him. . Richard Adams
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Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future. Amit Ray
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Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it. Pearl Zhu
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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
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One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please. Unarine Ramaru
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There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought. Unarine Ramaru
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All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point. Angie Morgan
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Each decision you make today has the potential to unlock and open doors of profitable benefits or close the doors to great opportunities. Think before you act and make your decisions wisely today. DeWayne Owens
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If you're being bombarded with information, the act of looking for patterns — not necessarily finding them — is what going to give you psychic refuge, a sense of sanctuary. Douglas Copeland
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Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful... Unknown
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One of the scariest things in the world, is that other people can make life-changing decisions for you. Karishma Magvani
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When we analyze how we make decisions, we witness the interplay of the heart and mind. We observe that the heart protests loudly when we choose something not so good for us, whereas when we make the right decision the same heart remains silent and at peace. That’s how the heart speaks; there are no loud signals when we do the right thing. Daaji
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Think, ask, pray and the right decision will find your way. Farid F. Ibrahim
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Thinking can be done best when you’re in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration. Auliq Ice
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The mindset you have, determines the next step you take. Unarine Ramaru
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The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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A crooked truth is far straight than a straight lie Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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In life, most decisions are a case of let go to get. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you. Auliq Ice
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In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it’s the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future. Jodi Picoult
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Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. Rasheed Ogunlaru
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What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when when I looked at my receding past everything seemed retrospectively marked by an extreme order and predictability yet all moments since seemed to obey, and promised to continue obeying, their own set of stochastic, undisclosed, and undiscoverable laws. Where I was fully aware of the pitfalls and folly of a finely-tuned narcissism but still the known universe seemed to bend and bend inexorably inward and towards me where it awaited my next move, supremely ready to react accordingly. And how I knew that decisions I would soon make or defer would have near- Sophoclean import and yet nonetheless it all seemed oddly irrelevant. . Unknown
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God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that. Henry T. Blackaby
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Nature endowed human beings with two teleological components that define our essential humanity: consciousness and memory. Consciousness enables people to make decisions, and memory allows us to learn and share our accumulated knowledge. Cognitive endowments of consciousness and knowledge allow people to ascribe a meaning to existence, by establishing a direction and purpose to their life. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you. David Gemmell
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One reason your wife might not trust your decision making is because she feels as if you don't spend time alone with God or she feels as if your decisions will only benefit you. Unknown
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If we let the men talk about them and decide them, then suddenly we wake up and find out that the men have made all the decisions, and these decisions all suit men. Alexander McCall Smith
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Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and things they were yet to do! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Wait and see the steps you should or should not have taken, and you shall understand patience and impatience better! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process. Unknown
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As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence. Unknown
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It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one–which is what happens most of the time. Neel Burton
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Now she knew where to find me, if it was written that we would meet again, we would. The important thing is to allow fate to intervene in our lives and to decide what is best for everyone. Paulo Coelho
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It's up to you, not fate. David Levithan
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Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more. Julie Ann ElliottMorton
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Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic. Tahereh Mafi
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Judgment and decision making are often considered together. Pearl Zhu
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Decision Without Thinking is Like a Body Without Head... Israt Ali
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Traditional ways to deal with information--reading, listening, writing, talking--are painfully slow in comparison to "viewing the big picture." Those who survive information overload will be those who search for information with broadband thinking but apply it with a single-minded focus. Kathryn Alesandrini
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One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it. Andy Stanley
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It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right. Lyndon Johnson
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Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is. Unknown
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Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions. William Stafford
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Have you ever truly, keenly felt like you don't know who you are? Do you ever do something and think, Who is at the controls? Like some mad pilot has locked you out of the cockpit? I definitely do. I feel a kind of vertigo that makes me shake afterwards. I guess we all feel it when making a difficult-seeming choice, and sometimes you seriously don't know what you want because you don't know who you're supposed to be, or who you want to be. Physics, my first and second families, my philosophy degree, had all failed to help me answer that question. The former has led me to wonder whether I am one of an infinite number of Alices in multiple universes. A quantum fuck-up, which is someone who fucks up in every one of those universes but in different ways. Olivia Sudjic
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Mad and sad is a good mix for poor decisions. Hart Of Dixie
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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. Jared Diamond
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The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to be removed from explanations of the process of life or society in the seventeenth century, and although there may be a nod towards astrology or the crossed finger today, superstition is not seriously used in decision making.. Scientific thinking, which similarly developed in the seventeenth century, has been influential in bringing this change. We now see that tornadoes and earthquakes have rational explanations in terms of climatology and seismology rather than as divine punishments. Most people when deciding whether to take a new job, embark on a divorce, or simply plan a holiday will not seek divine guidance, but rather discuss with themselves or others the issues of cause and effect. Jim Herrick
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In a crisis, time was always the enemy. Stephen L. Carter
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A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets — which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting. Peter Singer
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Integrity is the ability of being honest and having strong moral principles and values, which reflect in our character. Decide to work in integrity and uprightness of hearts that is the price to be paid for you to realise your vision. Prince Akwarandu
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Be decisive and handle objections as they come, don't relay on others much and don't look to others to determine if you're acting right or wrong. Do what feels right for you. Auliq Ice
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Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important reason for obeying the law. By obeying the law, I can contribute to the respect in which the established decision procedure and the laws are held. By disobeying, I set an example to others that may lead them to disobey too. Peter Singer
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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle. Tim Harford
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As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. — Arthur Schlesinger David Pietrusza
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The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash. Elton Trueblood
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Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate. Sherry Turkle
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Urgency and despair don't get along well. N.K. Jemisin
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It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind Unknown
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I’m not leaving the plane that way, ” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice–a third place that is neither “have to” or “want to.” That discovery freed me to move forward to make two other choices: I’m not going to be kicked out of this plane; and If I’m going to leave this plane, it will be under my own power. I’m going to maximize my chances of a safe exit. The change in my feelings at that moment was quite dramatic. Stress was replaced with purposeful action; a sense of victimhood was transformed into empowerment. There was no hesitation, no ambivalence. Neil A. Fiore
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On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker. Robert K. Greenleaf
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Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen. John Ajvide Lindqvist
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She has gone back to Brooklyn, ' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge on its way towards Wexford, Eilis imagined the years already when these words would come to mean less and less to the man who heard them and would come to mean more and more to herself. She almost smiled at the thought of it, then closed her eyes and tried to imagine nothing more. Unknown
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Once I make a decision, I stick to it. Susan Nussbaum
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Good decision-making is like playing chess and you must avoid making hasty decisions without thinking of how that particular decision will impact on different aspects of your work and organization. The worst kind of decision-making is to decide to delay a difficult decision until later or to pass it to someone else to have to make. You will never excel and be valued by your colleagues if you get into these habits of procrastination and passing responsibility to others. Nigel Cumberland
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A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIPWhenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No -- not so that chance shall decide the affairwhile you're passively standing there moping;but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping. Piet Hein
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A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions. Paulo Coelho
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You should never make a decision the day before your period. Miranda J. Barrett
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We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures. Andy Stanley
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None of us plan--or intend--to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to. Andy Stanley
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In the end you only answer to yourself! Ryk Brown
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There comes a point in your life when you have to take a decision, firm one. You take it, stick to it, execute it. You might alienate some people with your decision but as long as you know the decision is right there is nothing to be concerned about. If you have the slightest doubt that the decision was wrong and it has done more harm than good, you must rectify. If you are sure the decision was absolutely right then you need not be worried about the people you alienated, you are better off without them in your life. If people cannot appreciate you for what you are, you don't need their drama in your life. Arti Honrao
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Don't even leap to actions and decisions before you've found that sense of natural calm, well-being, or enthusiasm. Frederick Dodson
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The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it. Bryant McGill
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Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions. Nkem Paul
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Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...[it is] quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders. Michael Lewis
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Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money. Paul Gibbons
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Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong. Amartya Sen
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He taught me how small, day-by-day decisions add up to the great consequences and that every thoughtful and educated decision I made about my life would eventually lead me to a clear and more satisfying understanding of my calling. Eric Motley
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Freedom of will is born from the neurons. And that freedom allows you to sometimes make even the worst decisions ever in your life. And by making the worst decision, you simply learn what would be the better decision in future. Abhijit Naskar
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In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option. Abhijit Naskar
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Journalism can be lethal Robert Fisk
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The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home. Daniel Kahneman