Quotes About Decision-making

When you're being asked to think about the meaning of your intuitions before you act on them, maybe along the way you decide your intuitions are destructive or make no sense at all. And then you don't act on them.

It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.

Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

Honestly, when I am offered a film, I look at the story, character, director, producer and co-actors while giving a nod.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

For the first three months after the U.S. Open, I had retired and nonretired in my head almost every week. And there was a while where I was done. I had gotten it through my head that I was done, when I was just trying to get my normal life back.

Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.

I'm not going to offer and take a guy at North Carolina that I don't meet. And if I don't like him, I'm not taking him.

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

I don't know what would happen to me if I ate a bacon sandwich, but I'm just not interested.

I'm so much better off when I trust my instincts. But they're not perfect.

Nowadays, you cannot tell your kids what to do. In fact, you have to listen to them. As a parent, give them great education and values and they will decide what to do in life.

When I'm talking about a football brain, the very first time the ball's kicked in the air and Lukaku completely outjump's you and you get absolutely nowhere near it, that's when your brain clicks in. You know what you do, let him go and win it.Take a step off and when he flicks it on, guess what, you bring it down on your chest.

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

Alia was a very obedient child. The only thing she was fussy about was what dress she wore. I would have to give her choices, and she would pick her dress out knowing very well exactly what she wanted to wear.

Heathrow expansion is an object lesson in the dominance of a rapacious sector of industry over government decision-making.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.