Decisions Quotes

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.

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.

The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you're in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

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.

Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

”In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power.”

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.

[People] are tired of looking at what happens, they are tired of us having our... let's say finest and brightest not being involved in the most important decisions, and being someplace else.

He does not however postpone making decisions.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

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.

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

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.

I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions.

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

These are the decisions we make that lead us to where we are today.

I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.