Quotes About Decisions

My brother prefers to let other people put me on the straight and narrow." Evelyn felt a stab of pity for him suddenly, for he appeared without support of any kind, and she had heard some rumors about his home, Wentworth Castle, being a rather dark and dismal place. But then she reminded herself that he had brought all this on himself. He made his own decisions to misbehave. "Maybe you need to put yourself there," she told him flatly.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.

Secuencias. No sé decirlo mejor, es como una noción de que bruscamente se arman secuencias terribles o idiotas en la vida de un hombre, sin que se sepa qué ley fuera de las leyes clasificadas decide...

Qué me quedaba por hacer aparte de la música y los libros, sino llevar a las cosas a las amargas consecuencias finales más que previsibles, a menos que hubiera otra cosa, un atajo, una encrucijada en alguna parte, una última salida que me diera lo mío sin hacer pedazos lo de los demás

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more instance in a chain of bad choices.

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

You think you can compare your disgraceful demands to the terrible decisions I have to make for the good of the company and this family?

I make all my decisions on intuition.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

The important thing in investing is to be true to your compass.

When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.

I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions.

Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

When it comes to money, the best investments were probably the ones I did not make.

The best investments are the easiest ones to approve.

I've made some investments during my career that I'm happy with, so my life, talking financially, is definitely OK.

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

It was a deliberate policy not to invite Hello!' into my home. I could have done that stuff and made a lot of money, but I've never regretted not doing it.

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.