Quotes About Decision-making

Story of a Girl By:Sara Zarr *Lexile:760 SRC:12 pts. *Personal Issues *Choice of getting a job to move out *Major Choice *In Process of making it happen *It effects her bother his girlfriend and their baby, because they will move out with her too. *Sometimes we need to take choices that will make your life easier and also others.

Whether you made your choices with your eyes open or closed, they're made. It's not time to regret them; it's time to live with the consequences.

Sometimes, fewer choices can be a good thing.

Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn"t want to hear what it was saying.

While you make decisions about hors d'oeuvres for the party, maids will gently rub your temples to ward off too much hard thinking.

Maybe we should hear Jack's plan first," Jonah says. "He hasn't even thought of one," I say with an edge. "I'd like to hear Abby's idea," Jack says. Right answer, kid. "Yeah, me too," Jonah says, smiling at Jack. I give Jonah the side-eye.

One thing I can say with complete certainty is that it is a bad idea to trust the majority of experts in any domain in which both complexity and large amounts of money are involved.

You know you're in a bureaucracy when a hundred people who think 'A' get together and compromise on 'B.

When candidate Trump answered questions about policies, it was clear he didn't have a detailed understanding of the more complicated issues. Most observers saw this as a fatal flaw that would keep him out of the White House. I didn't see it that way. I saw it as Trump recognizing that people don't use facts and reason to make decisions. A skilled persuader can blatantly ignore facts and policy details so long as the persuasion is skillful.

We think we are reasonable and rational most of the time. But what hypnotists have long known, and scientists have in recent years confirmed, is that our decisions are often made without appeal to the rational parts of our brains. We literally make our decisions first and then create elaborate rationalizations for them after the fact.

A good general rule is that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts... On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact.

It wasn't just the British foreign secretary whose time was taken up dealing with such things, but the foreign ministers—and in many cases, the prime ministers and presidents and kings—of all the powers, and often over struggles even less significant than that which entangled Curt Prüfer. Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?

When deliberating about blowing the whistle, many employees become ethical egoists, using their own self-interest as the determining factor for what they should do in the situation.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in. The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second.

The more that people share decisions affecting their working life, the more they are motivated to carry them out

Never make a calculation until you know the answer.

The way you can tell there's democracy going on is that nothing gets done.

The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

That's the problem with leadership cults. They're red hot on getting shit done, once the big man has spoken, but not so good at weighing up whether that shit should have been done in the first place.

optimization under constraints," and many Nobel prizes have been awarded in this area. Using the concept of bounded rationality

the way stock prices are made, the silly and almost childlike basis upon which grown men decide that a stock should be bought, and at what price

And we think more like managers, whose task is to do things right, than as leaders, whose task is to do the right thing.