Top 1200 Important Decisions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Well there are tough decisions necessary in budgets. I agree there are tough decisions necessary to ensure the long-term health of the budget. What I don't accept and will never accept is that those decisions must be unfair as a matter of course.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods.

It's weird because there is progress somehow. But there's so much that just feels the same. How important is that rank? How important is it that I am allowed to make these decisions? What does that really mean? What is progress? Is it progress that a black guy gets to push a button for the nuclear bomb? Is that progress? Maybe, I don't know.

Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

The chairman is the man who manages everything and, in the end, takes all the decisions. Always, for the fans, it's important to hear him.

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

I want the Iraqis to understand that we are with them and that they have to make tough decisions, and we'll help them make those tough decisions for this country, for this democracy to survive. And they've made some tough decisions.

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

We should have equivalent due-process protections for algorithmic decisions as for human decisions.

It's important for students to learn to make smart money management decisions before heading off to college or the entering the workforce.

Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any executive office, whether it's mayor, governor or president. How do you make decisions? Who do you want in the room helping you make those decisions?

Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the backs of our optimism and our insecurity. It is as much psychology as commerce. But I've also learned that every day we make split second decisions about people based on their attire and those decisions can have powerful implications - see the story of Trayvon Martin and his hoodie. It's important for us to understand how fashion works and how we connect to it.

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.

When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

All we can do as women is make the best decisions for us. And that includes everything from how you look to how you dress to whether you choose to stay at home or work when you have kids. All those decisions are so personal, and we have to start with finding what brings us joy and what brings us our own individual confidence. And if we're feeling good with those choices, then it makes what everybody else has to say less important.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

You can't have three defenders moving up and one going back. The decisions a team makes are important. As a whole.

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.

Now, as a reader, you shouldn't feel the decisions the writer makes about this DNA, or it would be boring beyond belief. But, as a writer, you're struggling to make these decisions. What should the title be? What's the first line? The point of view? And the struggle with the decisions is because you're trying to figure out WHAT IS THE NOVEL, WHAT IS THE NOVEL?

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.

Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.

Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

The point system certainly governs a Grandmaster's decisions, but it can be outweighed in any given position by more important factors.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out to be the best decisions for the farmers and the best decisions for the environment-and that there is no contradiction there.

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

The decision to believe is the most important choice we ever make. It shapes all our other decisions.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

I used to make snap judgments, moved quickly. It's more important to be thoughtful, think of the consequences of your decisions.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

It's important the sheriff and the D.A. work with the community to realize real-world solutions. If they make decisions in silos, it will fall short.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

I'm a smart girl. There are decisions that I make for reasons, and the most important thing is that my son is happy and he always will be. He's surrounded by love.