Quotes About Decision-making

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.

Once you are clear with the process of input-output and its consequence, you become more careful with every choice and decisions with your life.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

And they certainly wouldn't take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting.

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

It's so important that your doctor take a patience's values, not his, into consideration, along with the risks and benefits of treatment when there is a question to a doctor "What would you do?".