Decision Has Been Made Quotes

#1. No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

Peter Drucker

#2. Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

Jodi Picoult

#4. My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

Mark Lawrenson

#5. Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.

Colin Powell

#6. I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

E.P. Thompson

#7. I say we have no time for debate. Indeed, we have no need for it, since the decision has been made for us. We must fight. There is no other path!

Kaoru Kurimoto

#8. Jan knew it was pointless to ponder the rights and wrongs of Greta's decision, for the decision had been made and they were on their way to a foreign city. He would just have to make the best of things, for all their sakes. He tried to turn his attention to more practical matters, ...

Joanne Owen

#9. It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

Georges Simenon

#10. My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

Colin Hanks

#11. I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

Martine McCutcheon

#12. Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.

Pearl Zhu

#13. His decision had been made in the valley, and it lay as an iron warp in his mind. He could have turned back no more easily than he could have killed himself.

Norman Mailer

#14. Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.

Amanda Lindhout

#15. He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view

Marcus Sakey

#16. There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.

Jodi Picoult

#17. For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

Lizzy Caplan

#18. This process isn't suitable for complex decisions that have nuance, and those who use it in such situations run the risk of being perceived as rubberstamping when the decision had already been made.

Charlene Li

#19. 'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

Jack Irons

#20. I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

Mary Steenburgen

#21. Only in the exceptional case, where the integrity and competence of the advisers have been thoroughly demonstrated, should the investor act upon the advice of others without understanding and approving the decision made.

Benjamin Graham

#22. Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

Craig Bierko

#23. Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

Eddie Murphy

#24. You have a passionate, unfiltered, messy, provocative discussion that ends when the leader of the team decides all the information has been aired. At that point, if no one has made a compelling enough argument for making a decision, the leader breaks the tie.

Patrick Lencioni

#25. Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong
to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made.

T.M. McNally

#26. But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.

John Breaux

#27. No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

John Sculley

#28. I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision.

Michael Newdow

#29. I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

Phil Klay

#30. Sometimes, you turn left on life's road; sometimes, you turn right. But once you've made that decision, you have to march ahead and push through anything in your way. Never waste time thinking about what it would have been like if you'd taken the other path.

Arthur T. Bradley

#31. I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.

Kesh

#32. My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.

Karen Fowler

#33. I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

Alfred Molina

#34. So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? ... I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

Colin Powell

#35. In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

George J. Mitchell

#36. There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

Mads Mikkelsen

#37. I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.

Dick Cheney

#38. Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

Rachel Dolezal

#39. On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time ... to put us on offense against terrorists.

Rudy Giuliani

#40. Some important decisions were made on a battlefield or in a conference room. But others happened quietly, unseen by others. That didn't make the decision any less important to Sazed. He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to.

Brandon Sanderson

#41. Strongholds are developed from our habits (an act repeated so often that it becomes involuntary, there is no new decision of mind each time the act is performed). Strongholds can also be birthed from judgments that have been made when wounding occurs or when the basic needs of life are not met.

Jack Frost

#42. He ran because his decision had been made. It had been made for him by the convergence of half-forgotten motives, of desires and reasons, of varied yet congruous impulses. And the convergence of all these to a focus point of action.

Mervyn Peake

#43. Since I'm fortunate enough to be neither hesitant nor indecisive, I've always made a point of consulting my partners and associates whenever a major decision has to be made. This is not to say that I have always been right!

Guy De Rothschild

#44. The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

Tony Greig

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

Sophie Blackall

#46. Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team.

Stephen Curry

#47. A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

Steven Galloway

#48. That had always been my way, though. Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I just followed through - relieved that the choice was made.

Stephenie Meyer

#49. After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment
Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run.

Hank Williams Jr.

#50. I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

Chance The Rapper

#51. Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

Kobe Bryant

#52. I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

Chris Hardwick

#53. The best decisions he has made in his life, he said, were completely unexpected, the ones that cut against convention. Then he went even further. He said that every decision he has forced himself to make because it was unexpected has been a good one.

Michael Lewis

#54. Celia sighed. Her life may not have been her own, but her death was. She made a decision and saw it through. None of us can take that from her. None of us should. We should respect that, as hard as it may be.

J.M. Darhower

#55. Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.

John Foster Dulles

#56. President Obama, when he was elected, he could have been a unifying figure. He could have chosen to be a leader on race relations and bring us together. And he hasn't done that, he's made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions that have divided us rather than bringing us together.

Ted Cruz

#57. I had made the unwise decision to have my old clothes bagged and wear my fancy new finds home, so that I could debut my new look to the world at large. The reaction had been mixed at best, but often Tyne and wear was unable to keep up with my style savvy, so I didn't let it dishearten me.

Matthew Crow

#58. A temptation is a decision that has not yet been made.

Stan Spencer

#59. All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

Alma Kruger

#60. My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

Chelsea Clinton

#61. In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

Katharine Hepburn

#62. My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

Marianne Williamson

#63. Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.

PattiSue Plumer

#64. Don't fuck this up, it will be the worst decision you have made to date- and holy hell, have there been a lot of bad decisions made on your part over the years.

Jay Crownover