Decisions Quotes

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

~ Queen Latifah

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

~ Stephen Covey

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

~ Jeb Bush

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

~ Jairam Ramesh

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.

~ Harvey Mackay

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.

~ Jimmy Johnson

We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being healthy and happy with yourself. I'm not perfect, and I will indulge in pizza and sweets on occasion. The goal is to make the majority of your decisions good for your body. So listen to your body, and treat it like your temple.

~ Jacqueline Macinnes Wood

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

~ Antonin Scalia

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

~ Ellen Degeneres

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

~ Tom Ridge

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

~ Yochai Benkler

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

~ Gary Hamel

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

~ Barney Frank

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

~ Kevin Costner

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

~ Gary Neville

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

~ Jeb Hensarling

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

~ Roy E. Disney

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

~ Alan Autry

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

~ Peter Drucker

For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy.

~ Mo Ibrahim

Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.

~ Charles Kennedy

The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.

~ John Fleming

You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.

~ Enrique Pena Nieto

It starts with your diet and then to your exercise... you have to make the right decisions as a consumer and learn about carbs and proteins as well as watching your portion control, and from there you have to stay active as much as possible.

~ Apolo Ohno

Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.

~ Ted Deutch

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

~ Scott Cook

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

~ Shimon Peres

Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.

~ Bill Flores

I pulled back on the divorce because there is no rush for it. For medical decisions and a ton of other things, it's just smarter that it's put on hold.

~ Khloe Kardashian

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.

~ Nick Harkaway

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

~ Chuck Schumer

I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.

~ Maggie Hassan

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

~ Garry Trudeau

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

~ Barbara Boxer

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

~ Gerry Adams

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

~ Tom Frieden

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

~ Gary Bauer

Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

~ Anne Wojcicki

Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else.

~ Ben Shapiro