Decision Quotes
Where I live, if I put solar panels on my roof I'm not allowed to sell that energy back to the grid. I can't change that restriction myself. I need our local decision-makers to fix that.
Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.
I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.
Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.
I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.
The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.
Don't allow your emotions to get in the way of clearheaded decisions about what's best for you.
When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk.
The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.
In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.
God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.
And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.
Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.
As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.
My decision to return to the MLS is one that I have made with thoughtful consideration.
I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.
Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude
Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.
Not playing on Sunday has caused problems for other organizations or teams who wanted us to do so, but we never had to think twice about such a decision.
And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.
I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.
When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.
Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.
Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.
Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.
Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
People don't tune in to watch network executives' decisions. They don't tune in to watch writers' decisions. They tune in to watch people that they like.
The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.
The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.
The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.
I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.
Our decisions aren’t just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we’re about to head. Show me a decision and I’ll show you a direction.