Decision Quotes
I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.
Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.
I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.
Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.
Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.
The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.
If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.
The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.
A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.
A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.
Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.
We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right
At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.
I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."
Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.
Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.
If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.
To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.
Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.
I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.
When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.
The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.
The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.
I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.
At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.
Every decision we make has to be evaluated in light of our life-changing commitment to being a servant of Christ and His kingdom.
I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.
I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.
Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.