Quotes by Decision Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of individually negligible emissions of an invisible, odorless gas, by billions of people all over the world. Dale Jamieson decisionfundamentalspeople The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers. Dale Jamieson technologypowerfuldecision I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions. Dalia Mogahed policyformdecision God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character. Dallas Willard decisionmaycharacter There's no wrong time to make the right decision. Dalton McGuinty right-decisionwrong-timedecision I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV. Damian Lewis decisiontwoyears Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. Dan Abrams argumentboringdecision We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains. Dan Ariely decisionmistakebrain One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. Dan Ariely environmentlessonsdecision The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely. Dan Ariely unlikelydecisionideas A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive. Dan Ariely debtdecisionsimple I don't want to say that the poor are inherently cognitively diminished, but at the end of the day of making difficult, tough decisions, it's very hard to have the energy to think about things with the right mindset. Dan Ariely the-end-of-the-daydecisionthinking None of us always make the best financial decisions. Dan Ariely financialdecision We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions. Dan Ariely datatoolsdecision It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit. Dan Ariely life-changingimportantdecision Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach us about what we are using, how much it costs us, how much it is saving, and therefore change our decisions. Dan Ariely energydecisionthinking Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD Dan B. Allender disciplinedecisionhands Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it. Dan Barker agencyactingdecision If you're having a difficult time making the best decision then consider fasting. Fasting is simply taking something you regularly do and replacing it with praying and seeking God. For example instead of eating a meal you can take that time to seek God and allow Him to speak to you about the decision. Dan Black fastingdecisionexample Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them. Dan Brown winnerdecisionlife-is«3435363738394041424344»
