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“Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.”

Important Social Process Decision Produce Majors Function Institutions Mere Backgrounds Decision Making Minors Supplements Important Decisions Decision Making Process Social Capital

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”

Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.”

Three Decision Policy Intellectual Function Management Making Decisions Policy Making

Author:Anthony Stafford Beer

“We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.”

Ifs Mind May Made Helping Might Happens Eye Decision Situation Missing Expectations Function Disappointment Valuable Finding Yourself Unhappiness Fulfilled

Book:Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

Source: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

“When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.”

People Giving Reality Purpose Certain Universe Decision Moral Vision Ultimate Function Guides Commit Moral Decisions

Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.”

Men Looks Made Important Law President Decision Built Function Court Democratic Congress Supreme Traditional Great Men Supreme Court Citizenry Decisions Made Important Decisions

Author:Howard Zinn

“Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!”

Should Care Individual Decision Changed Limits Ethics Doctors Function Patient Medical Traditional Primaries Health Care Decision Making Regulation

Author:Donald Berwick

“[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.”

“If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.”

Bigs Decision Environment Lessons Economics Function Behavioral Economics

Author:Dan Ariely

“A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.”

Feels Wells Choices Decision Brain Break Judging Habit Conscious Function Response Fixed Decision Making Routine Take Time Worn Pathways Cerebral

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.”

Political Decision Economic Policy Function Decision Making Vacuums Economic Policy

Author:Manmohan Singh

“The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign.”

Made Political Decision Economic Capitalism Function Unions Financial Ease Elites Sovereign Parliament European Union Nucleus

Author:Tariq Ali

“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”

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Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.”

Men Ends Use Faces Decision Consciousness Objects Terrible Solitude Standing Function Things Change Dead Man Standing There Remnants Emblems

Author:Paul Auster

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

“Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.”

Men Science Decision Environment Shapes Function Environmental

Book:Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

Source: Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

“During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete. Science has become an integral and most important part of our civilization, and scientific work means contributing to its development. Science in our technical age has social, economic, and political functions, and however remote one's own work is from technical application it is a link in the chain of actions and decisions which determine the fate of the human race. I realized this aspect of science in its full impact only after Hiroshima.”

“Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the central concern of modern politics. Public judgment, in the words of Benjamin Barber, is a function of commonality that can be exercised only by citizens interacting with one another in the context of mutual deliberation and decision.”

Source: Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era

“In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.”

“Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.”

Should Decision Conscious Function Colour Gamble

Author:Verner Panton