Quotes About Decisions

Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the '80s and '90s can never change, is absurd.

Far from definitively resolving the assisted suicide issue, the court's decisions seem to assure that the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia is not yet over - and may have only begun.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

My faith is super important to me and it is who I am, but I don't ever want my faith to be used to judge me for other decisions that I've made or to have that questioned because that doesn't go over well with me.

Imagine an inverted U-curve: as data initially becomes more available, decision accuracy improves; but beyond an inflection point of increasing information, the amount of data diminishes management's capacity to process the information and thus its ability to reach optimal decisions.20

a handful of decisions that only the board can make: the decisions to select, retain, or dismiss the chief executive; to establish a climate of ethics and integrity; to set the goals and incentives for the executive team; and to pinpoint the company's central idea, risk appetite, and capital structure.

Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.

One must be profoundly responsible when categorically presenting an absolute, so let me put it this way. The chances are that if you marry somebody in violation of you parents' will, you are playing a high stakes game as you enter the future. Any time you violate an authority that has been put by God, you need to be twice as sure you are doing the right thing.

Because?' said the older man. 'That's one of the finest reasons in the world. Leaves lots of room for decisions.

History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads.

I only know that he who makes a tie is lost, the seed of corruption has entered his heart

FOR THE BIG DECISIONS IN LIFE, YOU NEED TO REACH A DEEPER REGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS. MAKING DECISIONS THEN BECOMES NOT SO MUCH ABOUT 'DECIDING' AS ABOUT LETTING AN INNER WISDOM EMERGE. – Brian Arthur

The day then trapped me in its iron bars of phone calls and meetings, letters to read, letters to write, decisions to make, promises to break.

New York doesn't leave a lot of time for pondering forks in the road. People who have paused to gather their wits often find themselves suddenly waking up in a cookie-cutter beige apartment in Hoboken. I will not ever leave New York. I don't know how long it takes to become a true New Yorker, but I assume that if I die here ... that would qualify me.

A day does not define who you are, but rather - it decides who you will become.

Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a bennie- Benzedrine?- to elevate my spirits. Adamantly I told her, No thanks! I wanted to face what's called reality with my eyes open. I've made that a principle for my life. Sometimes I wonder if this has been a wise decision.

I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God's eyes.

I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me.

We only have one life to give, and we should be careful who and what we give it to.

When people want to hear yes, and you tell them no, they never like it. But those who are truly your friends will give you the freedom to make your own decisions. They