506 Quotes About Decision-making

What matters to us can be an utter non-sense but it will still make sense. Sense & non-sense is decided by the most intelligent or the stupidest person living within our mind, and the quality of the decision depends upon which person turns-up to make that decision.

They say you’re always at the place you need to be.But perhaps it’s not so that we go to stay, but see to leave.

The universe belongs to those who observe (postulate – the decision that results in creation), and not those who look.

You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything all at once. That's when you need to stop and check your thinking...Beware of the delirious guy in the emergency unit with the long history of alcoholism, because you will say, 'He's just drunk,' and you'll miss the subdural hematoma.

After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they felt that it was more likely to happen. The sheer volatility of people's judgement of the odds--their sense of the odds could be changed by two hours in a movie theater--told you something about the reliability of the mechanism that judged those odds.

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky] suggested, is likely to warp their judgement of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination.

Look, you can't think of a person like it's one thing, one 'I' that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn't make a decision, it arrives at one.

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.