Quotes About Decision

I figure when you come to a crossroads, you have a choice: right turn, left turn, straight ahead. Or you can just pull over to the side of the road and call it quits. But if you've got a good stretch of road up ahead and someone fun to travel it with, why stay stuck in the galdern ditch?

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

I thought a book on miracles might be a great idea, but just because it's a great idea doesn't mean I'm supposed to do it. But my editor persisted, and eventually I thought, 'He's right. I should write this book.'

Divorce was miserable, as it always is, and we divorce for the same reasons we marry.

Whether you are happy or miserable is completely a choice.

If you're not going to have consequences to a bad decision or to mislead Congress or any other aspect of life, that only incubates people to hatch bigger ideas that are not forthright and not abiding by the law.

I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'

To me, if you see a play that's just a bad play, it's just a missed call, I think, as a coach, you should be able to challenge that.

Well, I really enjoyed drama classes at school, but I left at 16 and started writing a musical with my brother. Because of that I missed out on going to college in general - it was take that chance or not and maybe miss out on something incredible.

Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.

For the label to grow, it has to have great executives who understand the culture, understand the mission, and can lead. I don't want to be part of every decision.

It was a culture shock at first, moving from Michigan to Mississippi. But it ended up being the best decision I ever made.

If it's good for Mississippi, I'll vote for it. If it comes from the Democratic side, fine. If it's good for us, I'll vote for it. But the converse is also true.

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.