Decision Quotes

The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.

Working people really amaze me. When you give them all the facts, they make the right decision every single time.

Goals happen to be restrictive to me. Goals can cause me to maybe miss out or make a wrong decision on an opportunity that pops up.

I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

I'm not making every decision due to my children. But I do hope they never see some movies I'm doing. But I do want to do more family-friendly movies.

I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

I suppose it is a bit of a date that we're having at the moment. As is usually the case you don't get married on a first date, you've got to go out a few times before you make any big decisions.

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.

I'm going to be prayerful about it. Whatever decision I make hopefully is the best decision I can make for my family and the fans and everybody.

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

When I go back to any of the mini-series or series that I've done, the heart and soul of the show always centers around how the people that we love are affected by our decisions.

It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

No decision about me, without me.

The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I just couldn't ratify their behavior and their decisions anymore by showing up on Sundays.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.