Quotes on Decisions

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.

Author: Primo Angeli

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Author: Arthur Ashe

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

Author: Oksana Baiul

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Author: Marvin Bower

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.

Author: Frank Butler

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

Author: Hodding Carter

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Author: Jimmy Carter

Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.

Author: Howard Coble

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Author: Morris Cohen

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

Author: Norm Coleman

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Author: Lloyd Cutler

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

Author: Moshe Dayan

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

Author: Dorothy Denning

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Author: Peter Drucker

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Author: Rene Dubos

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

Author: Greg Egan

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

Author: Atom Egoyan

Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

Author: Carly Fiorina

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

Author: Ronald Fisher

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

Author: Hans Frank

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

Author: Sue Grafton

It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.

Author: Robert Half

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

Author: Tom Hayden

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

Author: Harri Holkeri

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

Author: Harri Holkeri

I never make conscious decisions.

Author: Anthony Hopkins

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.

Author: Terrence Howard

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Author: Patricia Ireland

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

Author: Mike Johanns

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

Author: Irving Kaufman

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

Author: Nguyen Ky

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

Author: Queen Latifah

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Author: Rich Lowry

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Author: James Mansfield

That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.

Author: Scott McCallum

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Author: Golda Meir

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

Author: Kevin Mitnick

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

Author: Helen Moody

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

Author: Helen Moody

When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest.

Author: Alonzo Mourning

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

Author: Rupert Murdoch

At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.

Author: Dick Murphy

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

Author: Michael Nesmith

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

Author: Randy Neugebauer

I enjoy making the decisions.

Author: Stuart Pearce

You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.

Author: Simon Pegg

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Author: Marcel Proust

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Author: Grantland Rice

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

Author: Adam Rich

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.

Author: Chuck Robb

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Author: Tony Robbins

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.

Author: Mike Rounds

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Author: Charles Schumer

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

Author: Ridley Scott

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

Author: Brent Scowcroft

And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.

Author: William Scranton

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

Author: Jenny Shipley

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Author: Sophocles

I haven't always made the right decisions.

Author: George Steinbrenner

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

Author: Rex Stout

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

Author: Rex Stout

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

Author: Fred Thompson

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

Author: Tabare Vazquez

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

Author: Lech Walesa

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

Author: Jim Walton

I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

Author: Peter Weir

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

Author: Jack Welch

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

Author: Norbert Wiener

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Author: Thornton Wilder

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

Author: Dontrelle Willis

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.

Author: Robert Wise

In the dance of life, each step carries the weight of our decisions.

Author: Sophia Patel

Tomorrow is shaped by the decisions we make today.

Author: Sarah Evans

Life is a reflection of the decisions we make and the compassion we show.

Author: Samantha Martinez

Life is the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure novel, where each decision tells a different story.

Author: Alyssa Parker

Life is a canvas, painted with the colors of our actions and decisions.

Author: Sophia Morrison

In the vast symphony of life, every decision we make is a note that shapes our own unique melody.

Author: Sophia White

Success is to be found not in choosing the right path, but in making the chosen path right.

Author: Brooke Jefferson

In the book of life, our experiences are the paragraphs, our decisions are the punctuation, and our relationships are the chapters.

Author: Anna Williams

In the end, we regret the chances we didn't take more than the ones we did

Author: Ellen DeGeneres