506 Quotes About Decision-making

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.

You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge on its way towards Wexford, Eilis imagined the years already when these words would come to mean less and less to the man who heard them and would come to mean more and more to herself. She almost smiled at the thought of it, then closed her eyes and tried to imagine nothing more.

Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity.

It's very simple; just look at your life to see where you're heading. You're always in a momentum of something.