Decisions Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

”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.”

[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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

In the book [Today Matters] I talk about successful people make important decisions early in their life, and then they manage those decisions the rest of their life.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

Where an opinion is general it is usually correct.

As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others whom it affects and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.

The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.

The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.

Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.

Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it that is in itself a choice.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision and nothing is so futile.

Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.

Once the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."

Pick battles big enough to matter small enough to win.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.