Decision Quotes - Page 75

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work. In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker. Someone has to delegate responsibility, and God has ordained that this should be the husband.

But even technical work filled with formulas can be valuable and important. Einstein offered a lot of technical work on quantum physics, which mostly eludes me. I refer to his work, and I have studied it, but I am not a physicist. But look at Einstein's simple statement that the most important decision you ever will make is the decision whether you live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe.

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.

There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

"You die, I die too.” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."

"What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too. I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."

I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.

Always remember, indecision is decision - usually against you.

There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.

We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.

If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a ballot in a different language, does that not mean that one is also most likely unable to understand the debate that occurred prior to the decision one makes to vote?

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.