Decision Quotes - Page 30

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

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life, always forcing his way into the center of the picture. You deserve to have your life be about you; you are worth it.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

You decide every day who you will and will not be. Be bold in your decision but remember, choose wisely.

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when you're watching a film that you've worked on for several years. You know every frame so intimately that holding lots of the objectivity of a new viewer who has just seen it for the first time is the hardest thing. Every aesthetic decision you make - and you make thousands of them every day, have to - in theory, must be done from you being a blank slate. You almost have to run a program, like a mind wipe, every time you watch the movie.

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

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

The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO.

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

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.

You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.