Quotes About Decision-making

As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.

I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices.

I want all the mistakes to be mine, and I want to take responsibility for everything even if I fail. Whatever the project is, I need to have the final say.

Carrie Lam is a proxy leader.The final decision-maker is President Xi.

You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.

I don't think I've ever made any good financial decisions.

I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

I don't have a firm line on balanced budgets.

As a big, you don't want to be the first one to shoot.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed - and that can be dangerous.

Conservatives looking at presidential candidates have to ask what kind of leader they want sitting in the White House.

Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.

In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.

Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

I'm afraid my own approach to everything is exactly the same: Who am I? What do I want? What are the circumstances - difficult or non-difficult? What are the obstacles, physical and non-physical? Finally, given who I am, the circumstances, the obstacles, what do I do? That's the only thing you do. You've got to do the action.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

There are times when I get a role that someone else didn't. And there are instances when someone came from nowhere and is new to the industry, beat me to a role. The director and producer know who they want to work with. Who am I to stop them from doing that?

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.