Quotes About Decision-making

Better to remain unmarried than shackle herself to someone who'd bore her to tears.

They are good and fun and beautiful, and I'm happy. Others aren't so easy. But it is my decision to be happy during the hard times as well as the easy ones. I cannot control most things, but I can control my feelings. And I want to be happy. So I find something in every moment that I can enjoy.

Lucy felt herself nod. She did rather like to plan things. There was such a pleasant feeling of being in charge that came along with it.

When you love yourself and are able to indulge in yourself, and you're grounded in your 'yes' or 'no,' it's nothing to ask a guy on a date.

Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

For me, what is political is very personal. Politics are not this abstract idea. Laws are the rules that dictate how we live our lives. What we eat is political. How we dress is political. Where we live is political. All of these things are influenced by political decision-making, and it's important to be part of the process.

Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

If you give the boss all the decision-making power, they see the world through their eyes. The big innovations are generally such a shift that they won't see it. For a long time, it looked like it was just inevitable that you would get slow and bureaucratic.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

I'm an unelected adviser. I can't insist on my way.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

I follow my heart and my instinct about films and people.

I think people act on their emotions without thinking on them and one of our biggest faults as humans is our instinct to do that. I know I've done it. I'm trying to learn how to control that.

My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

I like to think I'll be quite instinctive as a leader.

You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

I'm not one that listens to a whole lot of advice... I go with my gut instincts.

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.

I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.