Objective Decision Making Quotes

I'm very rational. I tend to let my head rule my heart.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance.

When people fought for a democratic life, they were insisting that the common man had the capacity to engage in deliberation about how the community ought to run its life, not that you could let him squeak for what he wanted. And that ideal was that you could educate the common man to develop a certain amount of wisdom and that he could marshal the objectivity to deliberate and decide about what the public would require without always thinking that the political action was an opportunity to further his private interests…

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests.

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

Editing rooms are kind of, by definition, a bubble of you and the editor and what you're thinking. It's a truth-telling thing to watch it through someone else's eyes, is to get another level of real with your material. Like, "Maybe that's not that funny. Maybe that's not as interesting. Maybe that's redundant to something else. Maybe we can cut down." I don't know. It's a brutal, honest process. You've got to be pretty - You can't be sentimental. You have to be. It's a cold process. You can't be nostalgic. You have to make those tough decisions.

I always make decisions with the facts so I would look to make an early decision with the benefit of the facts.