Decision Quotes:

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

- A. C. Benson

topic: Business, Mean, Decision, Making Decisions

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. J. Jacobs

source: A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

topic: Keys, Self, Decision, Future Self

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

- A. J. Jacobs

source: A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

topic: Decision, Laziness, Twins, Inertia, Life Decision

To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.

- A. Lee Martinez

source: Twitter post from Feb 26, 2015

topic: Men, Worry, Decision, Poor Decisions

I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

- A.C. Grayling

topic: Believe, Decision, Wish, Pain In Life

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

- Aaron Eckhart

topic: Giving, Decision, Examination, Don't Give A Damn, I Don't Give A Damn

Decisions are made by those who show up.

- Aaron Sorkin

source: Aaron Sorkin (2002). “The West Wing”

topic: Decision, Made, Shows

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

- Aaron Sorkin

topic: Decision, Citizens, World

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

- Abbie Hoffman

topic: Fighting, Thinking, Decision, Versus

It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.

- Abby Sunderland

source: Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Kids, People, Decision

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

topic: Islamic, Decision, Honor

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: People, Decision, Servant

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Country, Decision, Age, Judicial

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

- Adam Fletcher

topic: People, Decision, Discrimination

At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.

- Adam Leipzig

topic: Decision, Process, Certain

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

- Adam Osborne

topic: Jumping, Decision, Entrepreneur, Lemmings, Bandwagon

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions

- Adam Osborne

topic: Decision, Marketing, Advertising

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

- Adam Rich

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Decision, Big Decisions, Assets

I'm not making every decision due to my children. But I do hope they never see some movies I'm doing. But I do want to do more family-friendly movies.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Children, Decision, Friendly

Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.

- Adele

topic: Decision, Brave, Fearless

Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decison never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!!

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Decision, Mein Kampf

The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Law, Decision, Majority, Parliamentary

The world is undoubtedly going through great changes.  The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity or profits for the Jew.  The task of the national state will, therefore, be to preserve the race and fit it to meet the final and great decisions on this globe by suitable education of its youth.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Race, Decision, Humanity, Great Change

A decision by the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or a decree may not be scrutinized by a judge. In addition, the judge is bound by any other decision of the Fuhrer.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Law, Judging, Decision

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

- Adrian Cadbury

topic: Decision, Ethics, Morality, Making Decisions, Tough Decisions

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

- Adriana Trigiani

topic: Food, Decision, Tables, Big Decisions

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Real, Choices, Decision

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

- Aeschylus

topic: Intelligent, Decision, Brain

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.

- Agnes de Mille

topic: Artist, Decision, Coins

At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Heart, Decision

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

topic: Practice, People, Decision, Iranian, Rigidity

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

- Akio Morita

topic: Jobs, Decision, Faults

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

- Al Davis

topic: Decision, Way, Honest

I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

- Al Gore

topic: Law, Decision, Choices

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

- Al Gore

topic: Decision, United States, Have Faith, Good Decision

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

- Al Gore

topic: Technology, Doctors, Decision, Computer Screen

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

- Al Pacino

topic: Decision, Looking Forward, Life Is

I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.

- Al Yankovic

topic: People, Missing, Decision, Missing A Person

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Careers, Two, Decision

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

- Alan Autry

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Leadership, Decision, Generations, Leadership Courage

The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

- Alan Curbishley

source: "Alan Curbishley resigns as West Ham manager" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2008.

topic: Soccer, Player, Decision, Involving, Breach Of Trust

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Decision, Understanding, Foundation, Qualitative, Competencies

Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Keys, Choices, Decision, Incomplete Knowledge, Decision Makers

Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can sustain healthy economic growth. Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not.

- Alan Hassenfeld

topic: Country, Decision, Healthy, Business Decisions

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

- Alan Watts

topic: Decision, Doe, Our Actions, Regression, Involuntary

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Food, Hands, Decision

Maybe don't make it so.

- Albert Finney

topic: Decision, Decision Making

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

- Albert Mohler

topic: Christian, Decision, Demand

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

- Albert Speer

source: Albert Speer (1997). “Inside the Third Reich”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

topic: Responsibility, Decision, Being Free, Headquarters

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Moving, Numbers, Decision, Wrong Move

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

- Alessandro Nivola

topic: Real, Decision, Way

The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.

- Alex Johnston

topic: Business, Decision, Doe, Market Research, Decision Makers

There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

- Alex Steffen

topic: Work, Home, Decision

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

- Alex Steffen

topic: Cities, Decision, Energy

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: People, Judging, Decision, Constitutional Convention

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

- Alexander Kluge

topic: Art, Decision, Directors, Autonomous

It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.

- Alexey Brodovitch

topic: Photography, Two, Decision

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

- Alfie Kohn

source: "The Homework Myth". Book by Alfie Kohn, 2006.

topic: Children, Learning, Decision, Love Of Learning, Good Decision

The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change

- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

topic: Taken, Decision, Choices, Decision Makers, Variability

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

- Alfred P. Sloan

topic: Agreement, Giving, Decision, Disagreement

We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.

- Alfred W. Crosby

topic: Two, Car, Decision

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.

- Ali Vincent

source: Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.127, Rodale

topic: Life Changing, Decision, Everyday

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

- Alice Waters

source: Interview with Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1995.

topic: Choices, Decision, Way

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

- Alison Krauss

source: "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

topic: Decision, Sound, Records

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

- Allen Lacy

topic: Character, Garden, Decision

Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.

- Allison Glock

topic: Car, Decision, Accidents, Car Accident

I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

- Allister Coetzee

topic: Numbers, Decision, Leader

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

- Alma Kruger

topic: Mistake, Decision, Made

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

- Alonzo Mourning

source: "Alonzo Mourning: The Edge of Sports Interview". Interview with Dave Zirin, bleacherreport.com. January 27, 2009.

topic: Decision, Helping, Individual, Right Decision, Handouts

Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?

- Amanda McKittrick Ros

topic: Mean, Hands, Decision, Erin

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

- Amber Riley

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Keys, Decision

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Fashion, Powerful, Decision, Confined

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

- Ameesha Patel

topic: Successful, Decision, Way

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

topic: Inspirational, Decision, Acting, Make The Right Choice, Inspiration And Life

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

- Aminu Kano

source: Goddy Emeka Ejiofor, Aminu Kano (2002). “Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon”

topic: Decision, Arriving, Realizing

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

- Amor Towles

source: Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.323, Penguin

topic: Decision, Vision, Cards

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Men, Decision, Dying, Promiscuous

We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Mistake, Choices, Decision, Feelings Change

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

- Amy Seimetz

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Boredom, Decision, Spurs

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

- Amy Smart

source: "IGN For Men Interview: Amy Smart". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 26, 2001.

topic: Giving, Decision, Kind, Make The Right Choice

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

- Amy Waldman

source: Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

topic: Perfect, Decision, Made

(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in mathematical terms. Sometimes the logical structure of a conflict situation admits rational decisions; sometimes it does not.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: "Prisoner's dilemma: A study in conflict and cooperation" by Anatol Rapoport, Albert S. Chammah, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (p. 196), 1965.

topic: Games, Decision, Doe, Rational Decisions

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

topic: Block, Decision, Cyprus, Enlargement

I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.

- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Government, Decision, Berlin, Nato

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

- Anderson Cooper

topic: Long, People, Decision

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

- Andre Rieu

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Heart, Decision, Brain

The call to make that decision is not mine, because obviously I won't resign and I'm not a quitter.

- Andre Villas-Boas

source: "Tottenham sack Andre Villas-Boas after 5-0 home defeat by Liverpool" by Rob Burnett, www.mirror.co.uk. December 16, 2013.

topic: Football, League, Decision, Premier League

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

- Andrea Arnold

topic: Decision, Film

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.

- Andreas Katsulas

topic: Wise, Decision, Would Be, Difficult Decisions, Very Wise

No decision about me without me.

- Andrew Lansley

topic: Decision

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

- Andrew Young

topic: Effort, Decision, Action, Affirmative Action, Affirmative

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

- Andy Andrews

source: Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.200, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: People, Decision, Waiting, Waiting On God

We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Decision, Feelings, Forgiving

Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Successful, People, Decision

The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.

- Andy Garcia

topic: Hands, Interesting, Decision

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

- Andy Stanley

topic: Decision, Doe, Authority, Competencies

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

- Andy Stanley

topic: Wise, Decision, Vision, Wise Decision, Personal Vision

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

- Andy Stanley

topic: Forgiveness, Hurt, Decision, Undeserving

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.

- Andy Stanley

topic: Art, Goal, Decision

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

- Ang Lee

topic: Decision, Quick Decisions

That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of WellPoint, and part of the reason may be that women may be drawn to healthcare as a profession. Women make 70 percent of all healthcare decisions. Women are currently available-ready, willing, and able-to be CEOs of major Fortune 50 or 500 companies. And I expect them to emerge as such over the days, weeks, and months ahead.

- Angela Braly

topic: Women, Thinking, Decision, Good Questions

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

- Angus T. Jones

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Decision, Brain, Promise

And don't kid yourself; when you don't decide, that's a decision.

- Anh Do

topic: Kids, Decision

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

- Anita Brookner

topic: Selfish, Ideas, Decision

Make everyday decisions from a place of love.

- Anita Moorjani

topic: Attitude, Decision, Everyday

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Business, Thinking, Decision, Business Woman, Secret To Success

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

- Anita Shreve

source: Anita Shreve (2014). “Light On Snow”, p.65, Hachette UK

topic: Decision, Splits, Tiny

It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

- Anjelica Huston

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Decision, Criticism, Getting Older, Rework

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Beautiful, Mistake, Decision, Critical Decisions

I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard,

- Ann Coulter

topic: Decision, Be Kind, Gentle, Retard

We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.

- Ann Druyan

source: "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

topic: Technology, Thinking, Decision, Excluded, High Technology

You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust that they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing. And if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

- Ann Romney

source: "Romney features wife, touts 'character' in new ad" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. December 21, 2011.

topic: Decision, President, Looks, Hard Things, Tough Decisions

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

- Ann Veneman

source: "Interview with Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman". "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2003.

topic: Science, Decision, Sound, Food Supply

Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Character, People, Decision

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

- Anna Lindh

topic: Responsibility, People, Decision

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

- Anna Wintour

source: "WWD CEO Summit: Anna Wintour in Conversation With Leslie Moonves" by Erik Maza, wwd.com. October 30, 2013.

topic: Fashion, Talking, Decision, Unsure

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.

- Anne Heche

topic: Home, Decision, Hug

I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Decision, Trying, Hook, Asking God

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

- Anne Michaels

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Decision

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

- Anne Rice

topic: Writing, Decision, Safe

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

- Anne Tyler

topic: Inspiration, Decision

There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's eyes. So they're completely available for whatever happens. And those are actors who tend to avoid getting into patterns.

- Anthony Heald

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Eye, Play, Decision

I never make conscious decisions.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Decision, Conscious, Roulette

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

- Anthony Kennedy

topic: Judging, Decision, Defense, Defense Attorneys, Courageous Decisions

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

- Anthony Quinn

topic: Men, Decision, Decision Making

The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that shouldn't influence a decision whether someone would come back or not.

- Anthony S. Fauci

topic: Basketball, Blood, Decision, Basketball Court

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

- Anthony Stafford Beer

source: "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 10), 1968.

topic: Decision, Intellectual, Three, Policy Making

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Determination, Decision, Intention, Rigor

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

- Antonio Damasio

source: "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.

topic: Decision, Feelings, Facts

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

- Antonio Damasio

topic: Decision, Emotion, Patient, Emote

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

- Antonio Machado

topic: Long, Decision, Wish

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

- Antony Beevor

topic: Decision, Battle, Way

My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers, Jack Ratcliffe, who had given an excellent course on electromagnetic theory during my final undergraduate year.

- Antony Hewish

topic: Teacher, Years, Decision, Undergraduate, Antenna

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

- Antony Jay

source: Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

topic: Responsibility, Decision, Matter

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

topic: Exercise, Decision, Protein, Make The Right Decision, Carbs

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.

- Archie Panjabi

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Smart, Wife, Decision, Smart Decisions

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

- Aristotle

topic: Party, Giving, Decision

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

- Aristotle

topic: Opposites, Justice, Decision, Propriety, Truth And Justice

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Decision, Care, Should

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Real, Decision, Congress

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

- Armstrong Williams

topic: Decision, Foundation, Helping, God Help

Don't be afraid of making decisions.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Decision, Making Decisions

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Wise, Decision, Persons

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

topic: Men, Decision, Information

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

- Arthur Helps

topic: Men, Light, Decision

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Decision, Clock, Made

I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.

- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

topic: Thinking, Decision, Answers, Right Decision, Unanimity

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

- Ashanti

source: "Ashanti’s #nofilter Challenge: Singer Discusses Honey Boo Boo And Her Ideal Death Row Meal", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

topic: New Year, Years, Decision

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

- Ashanti

source: Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 27, 2006.

topic: Decision, Makers, Good Decision, Decision Makers

I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would be a better place.

- Ashley Jensen

topic: Thinking, People, Decision

No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions,

- Assem Allam

source: "Hull City owner Assem Allam vows to quit if FA rejects name change" by David Conn, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2014.

topic: Decision, Earth, Business Decisions

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.

- Atom Egoyan

source: "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

topic: Thinking, Decision, Important

It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.

- Attila the Hun

topic: Inspirational, Decision, Criticize

Make all your decisions based on how hilarious it would be if you did it.

- Aubrey Plaza

topic: Decision, Would Be

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Beautiful, Decision, Care

A BUSINESSMAN cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. A bureaucrat, forces you to obey his decisions, whether you agree with him or not... If he makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; If he fails, He passes the loss on to you, in the form of heavier taxes.

- Ayn Rand

source: "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

topic: Mistake, Loss, Decision, Funny Political

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Decision, Liberty, Economics, Objectivism

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Military, Decision, Battle, Dislocation

Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.

- B. J. Palmer

topic: Decision, Mind, Compromise

The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Choices, Decision, Brave

Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: People, Effort, Decision, Decision Making Process

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

- Barack Obama

topic: Decision, Levels, Ability

Clutter is postponed decisions.

- Barbara

topic: Decision, Clutter

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

- Barbara Boxer

topic: Decision, Care, Medical

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

- Barbara Jordan

source: Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee

topic: Passion, Emotional, Decision, Deliberation

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Passion, Decision, Constitution, Subversion

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

- Barber Conable

topic: Decision, Exhaustion, Exasperation

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

- Barber Conable

topic: Thinking, High Heels, Decision

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

source: "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.

topic: Power, Perspective, Decision

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

- Barney Frank

topic: Decision, Etc, Poor

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

- Barney Frank

topic: Country, Decision, Receiving, Income Distribution, Executive Compensation

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

- Barry Goldwater

source: Barry Morris Goldwater, C. C. Goldwater (2007). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.133, Princeton University Press

topic: Religious, Abortion, Decision, Pregnant Women, Great Conservative

My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

- Barry Sanders

topic: Heart, Games, Decision

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

- Bashar al-Assad

topic: People, Decision, Political, Political Reform

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

- Basil Hume

topic: Order, Choices, Decision, Moral Choices, Divine Order

Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Kids, Decision, Fearless

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Fate, Decision, Alive

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

- Bela Lugosi

topic: America, Decision, Acting, Hungary

It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions

- Ben Bernanke

topic: Responsibility, Decision, Economics, Lenders

What is necessary is never unwise.

- Ben Cross

source: "Fictional chaacter: Sarek". "Star Trek", www.imdb.com. 2009.

topic: Decision, Decision Making, Unwise

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

- Ben Goldacre

topic: Doctors, Data, Decision, Doctors And Patients

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

- Ben Horowitz

source: "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2011.

topic: Decision, Important, Found

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

- Ben Horowitz

topic: Goal, Decision, Made

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

topic: Running, Practice, Decision, Difficult Decisions, Learning Process

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

- Ben Horowitz

source: "Ben Horowitz: There's a fine line between fear and courage". fortune.com. August 5, 2011.

topic: Choices, Decision, Courageous, Courageous Choices, Cowardly

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

- Ben Shahn

topic: Photography, Eye, Decision

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

- Ben Wheatley

source: "Ben Wheatley: master of the macabre". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

topic: Long, Decision, Way

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

- Benjamin Cardozo

topic: Taken, Justice, Decision

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Fighting, Past, Decision

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Decision, Analysis, Investing, Best Investment, Good Money

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Skills, Decision, Fool, Skillful

The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.

- Benjamin Mkapa

topic: Ideas, Decision, Brotherhood, Economic Integration

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

- Benjamin Walker

topic: Careers, Ideas, Decision

We've had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that's why we have an appeal processes

- Bernard C. Parks

topic: Judging, Decision, Process

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

topic: Decision, Quality, Chiefs

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

- Bernhard Langer

topic: Golf, Decision, Indecision, Wrong Decision

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Decision, Refusal

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

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Life, Happiness, Decision, Stop Procrastination

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Interesting, Boredom, Decision

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

- Bess Myerson

topic: Mistake, Divorce, Decision