Decision Quotes - Page 55

I know I've made the right decision when I've followed my heart.

Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.

I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image.

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.

So much of what I've learned, so much of what's good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right ones.

Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who he thinks is like him in many important ways? It was a noble and sensible decision.

We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision.

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans, not just some. Utah's ban on marriage equality does nothing to strengthen or protect any marriage. Instead, it singles out thousands of loving Utah families for unfair treatment simply because of who they are. Our Constitution does not allow for such blatant discrimination.

Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.

Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box

We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.