Quotes About Decisions

A prime minister can chose his friends and his Cabinet but not his relatives. Part Chairman Lord Williams

In fact, behavioral choices account almost entirely for a person's overall health and longevity by age sixty. The older you are, the more your choices determine how long and how well you live.

Decisions make themselves when you're coming downhill at seventy kilometres an hour. Suddenly there's the edge of nothingness in front of you. Swerve left? Swerve right? Or think about it and die? In your head you swerve both ways …" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

I'm not interested in offering dueling anecdotes, nor am I interested in dietary dogma, beliefs, or opinions. What I am interested in is the science. When it comes to making life-and-death decisions that concern something as important as your own health and that of your family, as far as I'm concerned, there's only one question: What does the best available balance of evidence say right now? That's what I've tried to encapsulate in this book.

If the Roman Republic is an example at all, citizens and leaders will realize that those decision makers will base their decisions on particular interests and advantages they see for what James Madison called a "faction.

completely changed his strategy and approach, and started taking absurd decisions and tweeting outrageous declarations.

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.

When they made decisions, people did not seek to maximize utility. They sought to minimize regret.

That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other.

1 In this book, I evaluate both American and Russian leaders—their ideas, decisions, and behavior—by how well they succeeded in achieving what in my view were desirable and attainable objectives.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.

When you have people making decisions they are essentially compelled to make," he said, "that's what I'm referring to as 'an unmanageable situation.

He simply hoped that difficult decisions would make themselves.

you just had to go with the president's whims. As for the president, it was quite clear that deciding between contradictory policy approaches was not his style of leadership. He simply hoped that difficult decisions would make themselves.

Trump was impetuous and yet did not like to make decisions, at least not ones that seemed to corner him into having to analyze a problem.

Ce n'est pas très difficile de travailler dans un bureau, il suffit d'être un peu méticuleux, de prendre des décisions rapidement, et de s'y tenir. J'avais vite compris qu'il n'est pas forcément nécessaire de prendre /la meilleur décision/, mais qu'il suffit, dans la plupart des cas, de prendre /une décision quelconque/, à condition de la prendre rapidement; enfin, si on travaille dans le secteur public.

It's really not so much about the amount of yeses or nos; it's about the brokenness behind our answers.

U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

Don't let the pressures around you make you settle for anything less than God's will for your life.

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

We said that we had to please ourselves first, that was the point of what being an artist was all about. If you didn't keep your integrity in the face of hard commercial decisions, you were lost. Your soul was dead.

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.