“The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.” — C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson’s Law
Tag: decisions
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“We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today.” — Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct
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“How deceptively light they are, the truly decisive steps we take in life.” — John Banville, The Untouchable
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“No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death.” — R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior-Prophet
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“We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“You cannot lie down behind your badly made decisions and call them fate or determinism or god.” — Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
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“The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway.” — Brian Eno, Confirmation Bias
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“Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.” — Jack McDevitt, Odyssey
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“Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.” — Alfie Kohn, The Homework Myth
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“You know, sometimes when a person don’t know what to do, the best thing is to just stand still.” — Arthur Miller, The Misfits
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