Impulsive Decision Making Quotes

I don't really think too far ahead, usually.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

The toughest are people mistakes, when you put the wrong person in a job. Sometimes you're too slow to move them out. Or not getting the right people involved to solve a problem, or doing something out of anger; you learn, just don't do that. But I'd have to say the Whale was one of them, and I would also have to put Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual on the list at this point.

If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.

The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

I'm not really premeditative in any way at all. I come up with an idea, hopefully for a film, and then I'm lucky enough to do the film.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

Congress is good at two things: Doing nothing and over-reacting.

I've always had a big personality. I was trickier as a kid. I behaved erratically instead of consistently. I would have tons of friends, and then I would have no friends. I'd be with the cool girls, then the uncool girls. I migrated from group to group because I was bored or people got bored with me. I was very intense.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway.

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.