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Quotes About Decisions

In his many remarks on mathematics, Wittgenstein is concerned to show the delusiveness of this picture. For when we reflect on it, we forget that we are looking at a projection of our own decisions and their consequences.
~ John Heaton
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
~ John Irving
At that moment, everyone walks on the sky. Maybe all great decisions are made without a net," The Wonder herself had told him. "There comes a time, in every life, when you must let go.
~ John Irving
Life forces enough final decisions on us," Mrs. Oastler continued. "We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
~ John Irving
when you're a young adult, the apparently infinite multiplicity of possible choices—possible jobs, possible friends, possible cities, possible girlfriends or boyfriends—can sometimes fool you into thinking you have an infinite amount of time to try out everything. But once you're married, you've significantly cut down the options, and it suddenly makes your life feel shorter—like now there's a direct line between you and your own death.
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
George había sido lo bastante listo para largarse de la escuela lo antes posible. No quería acabar como aquel tipo.
~ John Kennedy Toole
I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.
~ David Gordon Green
Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
~ Kathryn Schulz
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
~ Bill Forsyth
Early in my career as an engineer, I'd learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
~ Ben Horowitz
When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
~ John Mellencamp
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
~ Samuel Wilson
Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.
~ Michael Biehn
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
~ Ben Horowitz
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
~ Queen Latifah
Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.
~ Jules Olitski
I try to sing and not worry about what's going to happen after I do. I'd add that in my experience, as a person who went to see singers, some people helped me to make some decisions about the world.
~ Todd Snider
...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.
~ Tom McClintock
I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.
~ Pamela Clare
Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.
~ Sam Altman
Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.
~ Jim Rohn
Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
~ Unknown
They say 'follow your heart' but if your heart's in a million pieces which piece do you follow...
~ Unknown