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Quotes About Decision-making

We make decisions based on what we feel in the moment.
~ Mel Robbins
I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.
~ Antonis Samaras
Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.
~ Tamzin Merchant
I went through moody broody... well, I met one person and I thought 'if I am going to have a child with anybody it is going to be with this guy. Anyway it didn't happen because he had a girlfriend and I tried not to sleep with people if they had girlfriends.
~ Kathy Burke
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
~ Jesse Jackson
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.
~ Sheena Iyengar
The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
~ Tamzin Merchant
More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.
~ Chris Penn
Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.
~ David Jolly
I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
~ Malcolm D. Lee
When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.
~ Wilson Cruz
I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.
~ Sheila Heti
Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'
~ Jeb Hensarling
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
~ Thucydides
when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think.
~ Thucydides
prevent your taking the wrong course on matters of great importance by yielding too readily to the persuasions of your allies.
~ Thucydides
We're kidding ourselves if we think we can opt out of these decisions. Every policy the government adopts, and every individual choice you make, implies that a valuation has been made, even if no one has been honest enough to own up to it or even admit it to themselves.
~ Tim Harford
Doing foolish things in an attempt 'to correct the past', like marrying the man whose baby you just aborted, isn't unusual at all. It's part of being human. What
~ Tim Harford
Switching costs can be psychological, too – a result of brand loyalty.
~ Tim Harford
Efek kepemilikan itu tidak rasional, dan itu nyata-tetapi tidak mempengaruhi orang-orang yang berpengalaman dalam situasi-situasi realistis.
~ Tim Harford
Permaina adalah uraian matrmatis dari hubungan antara strategi-strategi dan kemungkinan hasil-hasilnya.
~ Tim Harford
As noble as our intentions might be as we assume a leadership role, we are always one errant, unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgment or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions.
~ Tim Irwin
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.
~ Tim O'Brien