Quotes About Decision

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

The reality is that my wife would be pretty upset if I went and bought a plot of land somewhere in Outer Mongolia or the Arctic Circle!

While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it down four times. I didn't want to do that movie. I called it the upside down boat.

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

As a team you have to figure out what you want to do and who do you want to pay and that comes from the guys upstairs.

She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.

There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide whether it's going to work, and then you turn around and you've been married 45 years.

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.