Decision Quotes - Page 67

Nothing happens until you decide.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

[Going to Barca] was a decision I took with my family. They helped me a lot. It's been a dream come true. I'm really happy.

When you're enlightened, you don't have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that's a better Earth. People can make more informed decisions politically, culturally, personally.

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

I do feel like once you know you are someone who is in the world and there are other countries and cultures, that stays with you and your decision-making forever.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

Sometimes trust takes time. We all love to be in control, but when you start to give some of that up, it's freeing. Start with some of the little things. Give those things up to the Lord. Ultimately the most important decision you can make is giving your life over to Christ and trusting Him with it. That's an amazing thing.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.

Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!

It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview - a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before - which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.

Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.