Decision Complexity Quotes

I think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Military decisions are much more difficult and more often wrong than civilian decisions.

It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.

Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival.

Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.

It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

I'm a very good decision maker because I have core set of principles and so I can make decisions. Decisions can be very hard and you have to wrestle with them, but I'm able to get all the data on the table and figure out what would be the best decision because decisions mean ill for some people and mean positives for others.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

More that members of Senate know about Medicaid, in many ways, the harder it is to make that final decision, because you have got so much information, and you know how many other things are impacted here by one decision here that, five decisions later, has made a big difference in somebody's life.

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.

We also don't always know what we want. And in those cases it can actually make us worse off because it's actually easier to figure out what you want and to figure out how the options differ if you have about a handful of them than if you have a hundred of them.

Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.