Decision Quotes - Page 43

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

A woman has the right to make decisions regarding her own body, not the United States government.

Probably when I gave things to Slavica [ Ecclestone], you know the shares of the company, and things like that. And she put it all in trust and the trust sold the shares. Um, would I turn the clock back if I could and so I still owned the company completely? Probably yes. It probably wasn't a good decision, but it was the decision that had to be made. Was I happy that I made it? No.

I always make decisions with the facts so I would look to make an early decision with the benefit of the facts.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.

If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?

Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do.

Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.

With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.

Right now you can make a decision, ... If you truly decided to, you can do almost anything. So if you don't liike the current relationship you're in, make the decision now to change it. If you don't like your current job, change it.

One of the things I preach to all my staff is never be frightened to make a decision.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil.

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!