Quotes About Decision-making

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

It's just something, 'Should I run the team or should I score?' I gotta learn how to balance that, and be more aggressive sometimes.

One thing I've learned in my limited experience is you can justify anything intellectually. There are a million reasons to stay with someone, and a million reasons to end something - so you can really only trust your gut.

As a keeper, you have to understand that your job is black and white: you make a save, or you don't; you can be the hero - or the goat.

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

The essence of democracy is that you can kick people out.

You can't do something stupid at any time. If you do, you're going to get technicals or flagrant fouls, or you're going to get kicked out of the game or whatever.

With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.

Making an independent film is so great because you're your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there's nobody telling you anything. But you have to kinda, you know, if you have an instinct to do something, you do it. There's nobody to run it by.

The story of Gucci is that there were too many cooks in the kitchen.

I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

The label does what's good for the label. Always.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

We are not big believers in making decisions solely on the basis of the numbers. But we do think that ignoring what the numbers tell you is pretty silly.

The patient must acquire the capacity to assume responsibility for himself, in the sense of feeling himself the active, responsible force in his life, capable of making decisions and of taking the consequences. With this goes an acceptance of responsibility toward others, a readiness to recognize obligations in whose value he believes, whether they relate to his children, parents, friends, employees, colleagues, community, or country.

Accept me or kill me MacKayla. But choose. Fucking Choose.

I'll give you a choice. Kill me." "By definition 'choice' mandates a minimum of two possible avenues of action." "I wasn't done. Or kiss me. But do one or the other. Before I do one or the other to you.

Question: When you're one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It's how you choose to answer that question that defines you.

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

It's not my fault who I am. The only thing that's my fault is what I choose to do with it.