Decisions Quotes

The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.

~ Roger Goodell

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

~ Justin Bieber

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

~ Simon Cowell

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

~ Joyce Meyer

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.

~ Molly Ivins

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

~ John Cale

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

~ Thomas S. Monson

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

~ Rudy Giuliani

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

~ A. J. Jacobs

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

~ Rachel Sklar

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

~ Robert H. Schuller

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

~ Daniel Akaka

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

~ Arianna Huffington

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

~ Michael Franti

The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.

~ Riccardo Sabatini

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

~ Helen Garner

The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.

~ Whitfield Diffie

When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

~ Dmitry Medvedev

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

~ Brian Eno

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

~ Ian Mackaye

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

~ Stephen Hawking

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

~ A. S. Byatt

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

~ John F. Kennedy

Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.

~ James Comey

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

~ Damien Hirst

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

~ Ben Horowitz

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

~ Andre Rieu

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

~ Shawn Achor

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

~ Keke Palmer

I was never a comic book guy. I like the movies when I see them, especially the origin stories. I never felt like I could be on the set, at 3 o'clock in the morning, tired, with 10 important decisions to make, and know, intuitively, what the story needs. For me, I'd be copycatting and not inventing. I've never said yes to one.

~ Ron Howard

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

~ John Key

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

~ Mike Rogers

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

~ Leonard Boswell

Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.

~ Sheena Iyengar

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

~ Ben Horowitz

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

~ Caroline Kennedy

Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.

~ Philip Kerr