506 Quotes About Decision-making

But I can tell you this: that I am deeply proud of Rebecca. That she made a split-second decision to save the life of her son, turning the wheel of her vehicle so that her side of it would be impacted by an oncoming car instead of his. She gave her life in the exercise of the greatest gift that God grants us—the ability to change the trajectory of history.

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

The wrong decision you made at the right time is better than the right decision you made at the wrong time.

Don’t just break it off for the sake of it. Don’t do something drastic just to prove a point.

Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.

We are facing greater ecological instability, deeper social complexity and a growing need for individual meaning that would be foreign to all but our most recent ancestors. We cannot reach the destinations we choose for ourselves if we do not alter our navigation systems to accommodate the greater complexity in our lives

Be it the rightest of paths, the cardinal directions will never converge to where you are looking.

The pressure remains all in one direction, toward doing more, because the only mistake clinicians seem to fear is doing too little. Most have no appreciation that equally terrible mistakes are possible in the other direction—that doing too much could be no less devastating to a person's life.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point