Decision Quotes - Page 29

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

If you don't make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven't you?

If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.

Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.

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.

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.

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.

Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.