Decision Quotes - Page 57

I feel good about the decisions that I made and I'm happy. You know, I'm really happy.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

I try to sing and not worry about what's going to happen after I do. I'd add that in my experience, as a person who went to see singers, some people helped me to make some decisions about the world.

Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.

Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.

For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was mine.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.

When people talk about the singularity, when people talk about superintelligent AI, they're not talking about sentience or consciousness. They're talking about superhuman ability to make high-quality decisions.

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Listen, be respectful of others' opinions, be willing to change your mind - and then ultimately you have to make the decision. Decisiveness is very important.

I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time. It's not 'pity me', it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

This is the glory and miracle of grace, that God, through the Holy Spirit, is able to transform a stubborn, rebellious, and unbelieving will into a passionate, obedient, believing will without violating the integrity of the individual or diminishing the voluntary nature of one's decision to trust Christ for salvation.

Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.