Quotes About Decisions

I'm sure there have been missed opportunities, with films I've turned down that went on to be successful, but everyone in the industry has had that happen.

In my experience, what is often missing between intent and action is the knowledge and the means to actually change the way we do business or make consumer decisions.

You make sure to set True Norths for your company. You can't be involved in every decision and every meeting; you have to make sure the mission is very built into the culture, the product, and how you communicate.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.

Make mistakes and make bad decisions: you learn from them.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

I could not make mistakes while choosing films when I started out.

As humans, we make a lot of mistakes and take a lot of chances in one lifetime.

I went to school at MIT with a whole bunch of engineers. And then I started work one day and asked myself, 'Why do all of these MIT Ph.D.s work for Harvard M.B.A.s?' Why should it be like that? I was one of those engineers who thought, 'Why are these people making those dumb decisions?' So it's fun to be the person making them.

I was asked to be in Elton John's band, Joni Mitchell's band, and Miles Davis' band. I couldn't do it.

Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

I've had opportunities to go out and play, but sometimes I haven't. It's been a mixture of both.

In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff.

I agree that an actor's shelf life is so less, so they want it to move faster. But in that fast forward mode, you don't want to make wrong choices.

If God is first, and you kind of center everything else around Him being the main focal point, you really can make decisions that will not only mold you, but God will see exactly how you're making your decisions and then will bless you for it.

Life is about choices, and the grace - or lack thereof - with which you execute them is a make-or-break moment in anyone's life.

Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.