Quotes About Decision-making

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

If I had my way there would be a philosopher sitting round the table on every committee and in every boardroom.

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

I'm an over-packer 100 percent. I can't do it; I physically can't under-pack.

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.

In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn't good at much of anything else. Some people are good at a lot of things. I don't know how they choose what to do.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

I'll be an independent contractor and I'm going to make sure that I am my own boss, that I pick my own hours. I'm going to make my own business decisions.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

If you've got a big man who scores the ball, you've got to defend, and if you've got a shooter, you've got to pick and choose who you're going to defend.

Of course, juggling a career and a baby is tough but, as it's my business, I pick and choose.

I gotta continue within the offence and just understand it, pick and choose when to attack and things like that.

The older I've gotten and the more I've played, I realize there is a time for emotion, but you have to pick and choose those times.

I don't pick the leader of another party. Likud picked Netanyahu.

I've always tried to have a pretty discerning eye with the roles that I've picked, which is maybe why it seems like I take breaks, but really, they're not breaks. It's just that there's not as much out there as one would hope. I'm lucky enough to be able to be choosy sometimes.

Before, sometimes if the ball was played over my head I wouldn't know where I was but now I feel a lot more comfortable. Sometimes I would be going forward when it really wasn't the right time to go too, but now I'm picking my moments better.

It's a really hard decision, picking my second single.

When I first came into the England one-day side and joined the selectors, I wanted to move away from picking what some people called the bits-and-pieces to the best batsmen and bowlers.

I want to try and stay in the game and maybe have that responsibility: picking teams, telling players they're dropped. It's something that I might enjoy.

Donald Trump has made outstanding picks for his Cabinet.

I feel like I've been picky through the years and would do one movie a year or one movie every two years, and I want to work a lot more. So if I can find something that just happens right away as a director, I'll do it if I really love it, but otherwise, I want to keep working as an actor and getting better.

I haven't done many commercials, and I'm very picky about it because it comes down to creative control.