Decision Quotes

By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

The larger the price tag, the more you have to adopt what I call the postmodern management approach. What I mean by that is that you have to use everything when you make a decision.

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.

At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

The idea of public reason has to do with how questions should be decided, but it doesn't tell you what are the good reasons or correct decisions.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.

I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to say and I know how to say it.

I only had one year of eligibility and I wasn't getting many offers from other schools. I jumped on it to make a mark. That was the most wise decision I made coming out of Oklahoma junior college.

Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.

Moving to New York was the best decision I ever made.

The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.

Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much.

The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.

There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.

Pay real attention to your basic human instincts when you face gray area decisions, but also try to have a clear sense of when you have done all you can reasonably do.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.

I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.

A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.

Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

My parents will be sad for a while, and they may even blame themselves, the way they do now. Eventually they'll come to peace with my decision. I hope they'll realize I'm finally at peace.

The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

No one chose to be part of a love. You don't choose it. It's not a decision that you make.

While the past is the past, it often affects our decisions later on in life.

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions.

You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time