Decision Quotes - Page 23

Seek other people's advice, but don't take orders. And don't take 100% of anyone's advice. Make sure every decision you make is a product of your own conclusion. Be a student, not a disciple.

The key is not to call the decision maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth are the means by which you evolve.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

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

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.

Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

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.

I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.