Quotes About Decision-making

I will listen to people, but then I will take very decisive action.

My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.

Midfielders, on average, get somewhere between half a second and a second to think before they have to move the ball on. For strikers, however, it is significantly less: between 0.1 and 0.2 of a second before a defender is on them.

I've pretty much adjusted to how teams play. Like when I draw two defenders, I want to make the best play possible.

You're a pick-and-pop guy sometimes. You can get rolling with what the defense gives you.

My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it's there, and make plays for my team.

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

Delay is preferable to error.

All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking.

I know what I want, and it's hard to delegate.

I could sell more franchises than I'm selling right now, but we're pretty deliberate about where we're going.

As a director and captain of the ship, there are many things that demand your attention - crew members, locations, budget etc.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

Having three kids at home is sometimes like dealing with Democrats and Republicans when you're choosing a restaurant.

I started hearing things about aluminum in deodorant and other things like that. And it be so hard when you try to go to the store and find deodorant and it might not have aluminum, ammonium, but it might have all these other things. And it's like, how do I know what's good and what's not?

Leadership does not depend on being right.

If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.

You can play Dybala and Ronaldo; it just depends on the situations.

I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

I make it a point to speak to the directors and tell them why I don't want to do a particular role or film. If, despite that, they hold it against me, I cannot help it. I cannot do things that I don't want to just to please someone else.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.