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Quotes About Decisions

I don't know anything," she said. "Except that desperation and fear make a person do really stupid things.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Mo's success was based on demographic research that showed talk radio audiences were predominantly male, bitter, undereducated, untraveled, did not know how to figure percentages and unfailingly blew all major life decisions.
~ Tim Dorsey
I already know what people are going to say about me, and judge me for the decisions that I'm making, and I'm going to be the one who has to deal with that, and nobody else. And that's a lot.
~ Rachel Lindsay
We don't nod along as children go through adolescent decisions.
~ Will Cain
I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
~ David Tepper
In the end, life is wonderful but nonetheless a series of trade offs, especially between business/professional endeavours and family/community.
~ Patrick Pichette
Nonsensical decisions are made all the time in football and then really sensible decisions are made all the time. It really is the maddest business but everyone knows that. We all love it.
~ Sean Dyche
In the NBA, you always have to make the right decisions. You should feel free to live a normal life, but you really can't.
~ Shawn Kemp
When we assume that 'normal' people need 'time to heal,' or discourage individuals from making any decisions until a year or more after a loss, as some grief counselors do, we may be giving inappropriate advice. Such advice can cause people who feel ready to move on to wonder if they are hardhearted.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Boxing's not going to retire me; I'll retire from boxing. That's where most people make mistakes. They normally stay in the game a bit too long.
~ Amir Khan
There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.
~ Jose Maria Aznar
When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.
~ Natasha Trethewey
I wish we didn't have to be nude to be noticed... But given the game as it exists, women make decisions. For instance, the Miss America contest is, in all of its states... the single greatest source of scholarship money for women in the United States.
~ Caterina Fake
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
~ David Frum
When you go out on loan it's not the glitz and glamour, there's nowhere near the amount of money there is at the top level. People's livelihoods are on the line, mortgages and families. You are making decisions which can affect people.
~ Kasper Schmeichel
The challenge that we faced with the arrival of the Obama administration is, they didn't really have time to build trust before they had to make big, difficult decisions.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
~ Morrie Schwartz
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Anyone who has been obsessed or been in a mad love affair, sometimes you don't make the right decisions.
~ Sandra Oh
I have, on several occasions, disagreed with decisions of Justice Souter.
~ William H. Pryor
He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.
~ Norman Maclean
Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Your life is always speaking to you. It speaks in whispers, guiding you to your next right step.
~ Oprah Winfrey
For me, there are actually two lenses through which to view 'what happened to you.' There is the science-based explanation of the effect early trauma has on the brain. And then there are the myriad daily actions each of us take throughout our lives that are the result of, and that reflect back on, such trauma. These are the actions that, on the surface, look like bad decisions, bad habits, self-sabotage, self-destruction-the actions that cause others to judge.
~ Oprah Winfrey