Top 1200 Making Decisions Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.

Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear.

I want to stop making decisions based on money, start saying no to stuff I don't have fun with anymore.

The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all people’s decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided.

But, that’s the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run - which includes production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything - are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power. In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

If you are making smart decisions and doing the right things in the correct order and dedicating yourself to something, the success is inevitable.

If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

I get a lot of death threats. But the way I look at it, I feel I have a moral obligation to do the best I can to make the country better for everybody, and that threatens certain people because they're going to have much less power. I want the power to go back to people making decisions over their own lives rather than some experts making it.

Most of us think that decisions such as where shall I live, with whom shall I partner, what shall I pick as a career for my life are the most important decisions that we make. But from the point of view of the universe these decisions are not that important. Within you, you have already made decisions about who you are, what the universe is and how you will relate to other people and how you will relate to the universe and these decisions are creating consequences in your life moment by moment.

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

People often seem to think that when you're following the Lord and trying to do His will, your path will always be clear, the decisions smooth and easy, and life will be lived happily ever after and all that. Sometimes that may be true, but I've found that more often, it's not. The muddled decisions still seem muddled, bad things still happen to believers, and great things can happen to nonbelievers. When it comes to making our decisions, the key that God is concerned with is that we are trusting and seeking Him. God's desire is for us to align our lives with His Word and His will.

What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception through production and then completion - just informs what you're doing when you're an actor. And when you're an actor, it informs the decisions you make when you're making a film. It's using two different sides of your personality.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, often under great time pressure, leaders must make decisions and take effective actions to assure the survival and success of their organizations. This is how leaders add value to their organizations. They lead them to success by exercising good judgment, by making smart calls when especially difficult and complicated decisions simply must be made, and then ensuring that they are well executed.

When I concentrate, my face is deadpan and I can see there is a coldness there - when I'm making business decisions I know I can be quite dispassionate.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories. When I'm not, then I really have to learn how to live life and make use of the time properly. I'm not always great at making those decisions, but when it comes to working, my time is totally taken up. I have no option except to get up early in the morning and to work on that movie and to finish. But I take that with a pinch of salt, because I also love my time off.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

With Lady Antebellum, there's always pressure. It's hard for commerce not to rear its ugly head when you're making decisions.

We want to make sure Arizona residents have the opportunity to learn about the decisions we are making and have a chance to participate in the process.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

It is extremely empowering when you are making fundamental and critical decisions on different levels of production, till the final showcase on the screen.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

Shall I call the others back in?" He nodded. "Why ask me? It's all of you who are making the decisions.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

Taking chances for the people you care most about is easy. It's hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy. I make them without even thinking about it, it is usually something that just has to be done. You don't question anything, you just go for it.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

I talk to a lot of women who have difficult times who are suffering. I really want women to be encouraged and to have hope because things can get better. Make good decisions, stop making bad ones, because we have to take responsibility too. But make good decisions and really the future will be a lot better for your kids - and yourself.

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

When you're making a film, you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip.

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