Quotes on Decision

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

Author: Floyd Abrams

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

Author: Scott Adams

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

Author: Samuel Alito

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

Author: Namie Amuro

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Author: Isaac Asimov

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

Author: Shaukat Aziz

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

Author: Christian Bale

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

Author: Haley Barbour

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

Author: Bob Barker

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

Author: Roy Barnes

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

Author: Peter Bart

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

Author: John Barth

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Author: Xavier Becerra

According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

Author: Xavier Becerra

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

Author: Jose Bergamin

The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.

Author: Philip Berger

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Author: Donald Berwick

You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

Author: Joe Biden

Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

Author: Julian Bond

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.

Author: Anatoli Boukreev

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

Author: Ed Bradley

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

Author: William Brennan, Jr.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Author: Rita Brown

Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.

Author: Lindsey Buckingham

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

Author: Jim Bunning

One right decision doth not a great president make.

Author: Herman Cain

I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.

Author: Matt Cameron

Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.

Author: Simon Cameron

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

Author: Robert Casey

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

Author: Bobby Charlton

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.

Author: Michael Chertoff

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.

Author: Christo

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

Author: John Clark

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

Author: Barber Conable, Jr.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Author: Barber Conable, Jr.

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.

Author: John Conyers

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.

Author: Chris Cooper

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Author: Phil Crosby

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

Author: Tom Daschle

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Author: Robyn Davidson

Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.

Author: Al Davis

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

Author: Christopher Dodd

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Author: John Doolittle

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

Author: Paul Ehrlich

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

Author: Daniel Ellsberg

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

Author: John Erskine

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

Author: Jim Evans

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

Author: Sam Ewing

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Author: Frederic Farrar

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

Author: John Foster

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Author: Gene Fowler

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

Author: Klaus Fuchs

That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts.

Author: John Fund

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

Author: Michael Gartner

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Author: Charles Gaulle

But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.

Author: Boutros Ghali

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications.

Author: Alberto Gonzales

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

Author: Wavy Gravy

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

Author: Andrew Greeley

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Author: Thomas Hardy

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

Author: Harri Holkeri

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

Author: Harri Holkeri

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

Author: David Horowitz

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Author: Basil Hume

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.

Author: Isabelle Huppert

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.

Author: William Hurt

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Author: Muhammed Iqbal

"Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

Author: Jack Irons

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

Author: Alphonso Jackson

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

Author: Muhammad Jinnah

Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.

Author: Darren Johnson

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

Author: Don Johnson

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Author: Barbara Jordan

No more waking up at noon, updating FC for an hour, and spending the rest of the day cashing FC checks and watching porn? It was a hard decision, but, like, I'm a man now.

Author: Philip Kaplan

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

Author: Garry Kasparov

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

Author: Garry Kasparov

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.

Author: Andreas Katsulas

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Author: Elia Kazan

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.

Author: Kevin Keegan

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

Author: Kevin Kelly

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

Author: Edward Kennedy

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

Author: Alan Keyes

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.

Author: Michael Kinsley

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

Author: Sally Kirkland

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Author: Henry Kissinger

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Author: Fletcher Knebel

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy.

Author: David Korten

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

Author: Vladimir Kramnik

My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

Author: Mark Lawrenson

So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show.

Author: Nicholas Lea

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Author: Denis Leary

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

Author: Josh Lucas

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

Author: Bela Lugosi

The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.

Author: Robert Luskin

The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges.

Author: Robert Luskin

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

Author: Roger Mahony

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Author: Maimonides

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!

Author: Rudolph Marcus

The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking.

Author: Scott McCallum

If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

Author: Mary McCarthy

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

Author: Roger McGough

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Author: Phil McGraw

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

Author: Edwin Meese

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.

Author: Alfred Molina

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

Author: Ennio Morricone

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

Author: Gamal Nasser

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

Author: Graham Nelson

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

Author: Stevie Nicks

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

Author: Richard Nixon

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

Author: Denis Norden

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

Author: Alva Noto

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

Author: Alva Noto

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

Author: Trevor Nunn

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

Author: Trevor Nunn

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

Author: Steve Odland

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

Author: Barbara Olson

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Author: Robert Owen

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

Author: Evan Parker

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

Author: John Phillips

It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

Author: William Pollard

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

Author: Manuel Puig

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?

Author: Anna Quindlen

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

Author: Marc Racicot

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.

Author: Donna Reed

It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him.

Author: Mitchell Reiss

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Author: Tony Robbins

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.

Author: Guido Rossum

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

Author: Joseph Rotblat

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

Author: George Ryan

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

Author: Gabriela Sabatini

So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one.

Author: Graeme Saux

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

Author: John Scarlett

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

Author: Robert Scheer

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.

Author: Robert Scheer

We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

Author: Otto Schily

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Author: Robert Schuller

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Author: Robert Schuller

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Author: John Searle