506 Quotes About Decision-making

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

The way Sakurai and I looked at art was a contrast in styles. I stopped and studied each and every painting. Sakurai, seemingly knowing her likes and dislikes at first glance, stood rapt in front of paintings she liked and blew right past the ones she didn't. It was all so clear-cut and refreshing. I decided to do the same.

Conflict is not necessarily bad. If you can avoid taking conflict personally, it is actually a way to get better decisions and better results.

Decision making is easy when your values are clear.

I take one big inhale and make the momentous decision that will forever shift my future - I'm doing this!

The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy.

Independence is important to intelligent decision making for two reasons. First, it keeps the mistakes that people make from becoming correlated. Errors in individual judgment won’t wreck the group’s collective judgment as long as those errors aren’t systematically pointing in the same direction. One of the quickest ways to make people’s judgments systematically biased is to make them dependent on each other for information.

In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, "He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

Since the caveman days, fear has been a powerful motivator that can influence our decision-making. Nowadays, however, we aren’t running from wild animals, but instead are afraid of emotional trauma, change, disappointment and rejection.