Decision Quotes

What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

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

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.

It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions

You can't make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it's quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

You've got to make a decision: Are you going to go down with the situation, or are you going to focus and succeed? My dream...kept me going.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

This 'one big plan' thinking leads to a lot of the problems we're facing.

My worst decision was not learning Spanish yet. I think it would really help my business if I could do some of my singles in Spanish or a Spanish/English mix.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.

At the end of the day, everybody has to take the right decisions for the right reasons.

None of us always make the best financial decisions.

I think that ultimately what drives my decisions is if I think the opportunity is going to challenge me in a way that makes me better as an actor.

Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

Once comics become your life, you have to make decisions on what you spend your time on.

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

The one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision everyday.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

Well from a personal perspective, quitting drinking is a decision I felt good about.

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.