Important Decision Quotes

#1. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

Leo Szilard

#2. Sometimes life's most important moments are quiet, a decision made quick and calm.

Sarah Ockler

#3. Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Lillian Hellman

#4. Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.

George Steinbrenner

#5. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

D.J. MacHale

#6. If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.

Robert Conklin

#7. In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

Teller

#8. For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

Tim Cook

#9. Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make.

Vinod Khosla

#10. 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

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

Ezra Taft Benson

#12. When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ.

Paul V. Johnson

#13. The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.

Nina Jacobson

#14. It's a loathsome tale, yet I'm proof of God's love. He seeks us out to be His very own. My life had been so horrible, but it all changed when I surrendered to Him. It's the most important decision you'll ever make, and I pray you will soon understand the power of God's unconditional love.

DiAnn Mills

#15. Regardless of my age, such a trivial thing isn't important, it was upon that decision which my life hung.

Ross Turner

#16. That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.

Fred Thompson

#17. As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

Matt Mullenweg

#18. For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Billy Graham

#19. The Bible views us as recipients of God's perfect love, already charged with an important life mission (seeking first the kingdom of God), and thus the decision to marry, though crucial, won't define us. Nor will who we marry define us.

Gary L. Thomas

#20. The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish.

Greg LeMond

#21. The most important decision that we can make in our lives is the decision to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#22. The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Voltaire

#23. I'll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?' 'Yes, yes, I'm ready.' 'Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise.

Liane Moriarty

#24. I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.

Anna Wintour

#25. All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

Rex Stout

#26. The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it's the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.

Kenneth Eade

#27. When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.

Hillary Clinton

#28. 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

#29. What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#30. I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

Laura Marling

#31. On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#32. President Bush said he was 'troubled' by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this the people should make the decision, not judges. Unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges.

Jay Leno

#33. Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.

Meg Cabot

#34. Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.

Joshua Schachter

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

Sarah Addison Allen

#36. Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make.

Bill Gross

#37. The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers. I have a salary as member of parliament. I don't want a double salary. So it was a very important decision.

Enrico Letta

#38. What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

Ray Kurzweil

#39. The most important decision we make is whether to be honestly fake or fake honesty.

Mohammad Rafiq Teli

#40. It will be very important for us to continue to keep up the necessary pressure, the necessary vigilance, for there to be peace in Ukraine, our trust in the goodwill of President (Vladimir) Putin is limited. It is why we have to maintain our decision about sanctions.

Francois Hollande

#41. In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

Eli Pariser

#42. The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment !

Gaurav Dagaonkar

#43. It's important to like what you're doing. Choosing a profession is the most important decision you'll ever make - more important even than choosing a spouse.

Harlan Coben

#44. We're all just a decision or two away from destroying the relationships that are most important to us and the people we love. And most of the time, we never even know it.

Lauren Miller

#45. My decision isn't as important as the freedom to decide. And my income isn't as important as what I do to earn it.

Robin Sacredfire

#46. Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.

Pearl Zhu

#47. The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.

Lynne Stewart

#48. All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

Philip Bobbitt

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

Laura Poitras

#50. I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

Stephen Covey

#51. The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market keeps economic power widely dispersed.

Milton Friedman

#52. It is very difficult to make really big,
important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible
to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them
than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we
like to admit.

Dan Ariely

#53. When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

John Lubbock

#54. I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.

Jacob Bannon

#55. Relevance is kind of a weird thing. If one does topical material, it makes sense to want to be relevant. But if someone talks about donut sprinkles, it's not quite as important. Unless the U.S. Supreme Court makes a decision outlawing donut sprinkles.

Brian Regan

#56. One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.

Hillary Clinton

#57. I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This is the most important decision any President or any Senator must make, and it deserves vigorous debate

Rand Paul

#58. It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#59. Never make an important decision with your pants down.

Katie Thayne

#60. The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

Mark Kirk

#61. The most important thing that I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade.

Joan Bennett Kennedy

#62. Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

Jeff Bezos

#63. I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

Berenice Abbott

#64. Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.

Jillian Michaels

#65. Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built.

Vivek Wadhwa

#66. Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

James E. Faust

#67. Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

Eli Broad

#68. It's too important of a decision to pick someone at random in someone else's house." I

Rebecca Donovan

#69. There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision. Marriages, like ships, needed steering, and steady hands at the wheel.

Emma Straub

#70. This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry ...

Gordon B. Hinckley

#71. I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. And just go for it.

Tom Cruise

#72. The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

Albert Einstein

#73. The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#74. As we enter this election year, let's not forget the most important decision anyone can make-choosing Christ.

Franklin Graham

#75. It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.

Lauren Mayberry

#76. I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

John Legend

#77. Love is a decision," I answered. "Choose your love and then love your choice". Shared values and attitudes are much more important to a long term compatibility than common activities or backgrounds. One day at a time, one small step at a time, and it's suddenly 36 years later. The

Michelle Mras

#78. I think the important thing about making a decision is just to make it. Otherwise you can go nuts thinking about the pros and cons.

Diane Chamberlain

#79. Women are one of the most important segments of the adventure travel industry. Women make the vast majority of travel decisions in families - not only the destinations, but the activities. They are the predominant adventure travel planners.

Christopher Doyle

#80. Having three daughters, it is important for me to set a good example and teach them to make decisions that are healthy for your heart no matter what age you are.

Martina Mcbride

#81. I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

Mary Harron

#82. Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

Leon Panetta

#83. When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

Luis Figo

#84. The most important decision you will ever make is the decision you make about eternity.

Billy Graham

#85. Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

Pepper Schwartz

#86. I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.

John Cusack

#87. You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

Hillary Clinton

#88. You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.

Oprah Winfrey

#89. One of the most important types of decision making is deciding what you are not going to do, what you need to eliminate in order to make room for strategic investments.

Henry Cloud

#90. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#91. To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Noam Chomsky

#92. None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

Frederick Lenz

#93. It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Paulo Coelho

#94. As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.

Richard Armitage

#95. He flapped his mouth some more, and then shook himself awake, came to a decision, and starting sneaking huge, theatrical looks around the restaurant, as a way of telling all the other lunchers that I Am Now Going To Give This Man An Important Piece of Paper.

Hugh Laurie

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

Terry Rossio

#97. No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.

Lysander Spooner

#98. If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

Corrie Ten Boom

#99. Whoever you choose to fall in love with, is an important decision of yours, but you better choose carefully 'Cause you're capable of anything. Of anything and everything.

Auliq Ice

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

Peter Drucker