Quotes About Decisions

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

To understand the motivations behind Chinese government policy decisions, look no further than their impact on State-Owned Enterprises.

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

We're kidding ourselves if we think we can opt out of these decisions. Every policy the government adopts, and every individual choice you make, implies that a valuation has been made, even if no one has been honest enough to own up to it or even admit it to themselves.

So bad decisions cast a long shadow. But the benefits of good decisions can last a surprisingly long time. And, for all the unintended consequences and unwelcome side effects of the inventions we've considered in these pages, overall they've had vastly more good effects than

Mothertongue frowned at Duffy's tone. "There are matters awaiting my decisions," he admitted. "But you're not to give these men alcohol; they're clean-living Christians Ã¢â'¬Â¦ underneath it all." "Of course they are." A cask of beer was carried out a minute or so after Mothertongue's exit, and Duffy filled twenty-two mugs. "Drink up, now, you clean-living Christians," he told the northmen, unnecessarily.

Sometimes a commander's decisions must be made without regard for how they will be perceived," Thrawn said. "What matters is that the commander does what is necessary for victory.

Intent and motivations are irrelevant, Judgment can focus only on actions.

Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

You just had to apply judgment to your action, and such judgment came with experience—but experience often came from bad decisions.

I'm just saying people don't always make the right choices in life. That doesn't mean they have to be stuck with them.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them?

what looks like a quick fix today may well end up having far-reaching and unintended consequences tomorrow.

The matrix out of which these powerful decisions are born is sometimes called racism, sometimes classicism, sometimes sexism. Each is an accurate term surely, but each is also misleading. The source is a deplorable inability to project, to become the "other," to imagine her or him. It is an intellectual flaw, a shortening of the imagination, and reveals an ignorance of gothic proportions as well as a truly laughable lack of curiosity.

What is true outside of us in our actions, decisions, conversations, and choices ought to be true inside our spirit because it is within our spirit that God relates to us.

the Union's democratic deficit could easily turn from unconcern into hostility, into a sense that decisions were being taken 'there' with unfavourable consequences for us 'here' and over which 'we' had no say: a prejudice fuelled by irresponsible mainstream politicians but fanned by nationalist demagogues.

Better to have you curse me for giving you too much freedom, than have you blame me for bad decisions that may or may not have come as a result of my advice.