Quotes on Decision Making

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically.

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand