Top 100 Make Decisions Quotes
#1. Give up on the guesswork. Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance.
Jason Fried
#2. And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.
William Scranton
#3. I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.
Sophia Amoruso
#4. Goal: Don't make decisions based on other peoples influences or advice.
Demi Lovato
#5. If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to,
Rick Santorum
#6. We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.
Rodolfo Llinas
#7. I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.
Rebecca Stead
#8. "Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.
James C. Collins
#9. Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.
Tom Rath
#10. I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in my religious classes in school. I'm a big believer in separation of church and state, and I think that's what ... the law is.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#11. 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?
Tom Vilsack
#12. I must demonstrate I'm closer to people - a simpler, calmer presence, yet someone who can also make decisions and obtain promised results.
Francois Hollande
#13. But I decided that the popularity of something holds no value when I make my choices. I make decisions for me.
Cassie Mae
#14. 'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.
John De Mol Jr.
#15. Just like we respect your legal system, you [europeans] should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#16. In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.
Peter Senge
#17. I wanted to make decisions on who I loved by who completed me, made me feel good about myself. Who I could love freely and help make a better person by just being there.
Kim Harrison
#18. Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
Donald Rumsfeld
#19. When we make decisions that honor our dreams and priorities, we also make choices about what we won't prioritize. We must embrace these choices as well.
Sarah Hackley
#20. We want to make decisions based on facts. Many people do not. They make their decisions based on what their momma says or what their daddy says or what their political party says - without engaging their brains.
Ben Carson
#21. Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.
Danielle Steel
#22. Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.
Dean Hawkes
#23. Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
Charlie Munger
#24. Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.
Tony Robbins
#26. Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.
Thomas De Maiziere
#27. If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
Heath Ledger
#28. I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
J. C. Chandor
#29. We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Mike Rounds
#30. AWAY OF EASING THE BURDEN THAT FREEDOM OF CHOICE IMPOSES IS to make decisions about when to make decisions. These are what Cass Sunstein and Edna Ullmann-Margalit call second-order decisions. One kind of second-order decision is the decision to follow a rule.
Barry Schwartz
#31. I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.
Jim Webb
#32. When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.
Charles Finch
#33. I had been silent and silenced about an abortion I'd had years before. Like many women, I'd been made to feel at fault, not realizing there were political reasons why female humans were not supposed to make decisions about our own bodies.
Gloria Steinem
#35. But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.
Francis Fukuyama
#36. I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
Carlton Cuse
#37. Make decisions you can live with. You're the only one you have to live with the rest of your life.
Mitchell S. Karnes
#38. Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.
Paul Rusesabagina
#39. Helplessness was a strange experience, new to her; she had never found it hard to face things and make decisions; but she was not dealing with things - this was a fog without shapes or definitions, in which something kept forming and shifting before it could be seen ...
Ayn Rand
#40. We have a tremendous personal responsibility for the way our life has turned out, and an equally important role of steering it into the future. Although we constantly make decisions, we're not always mindful of their far-reaching consequences.
Timber Hawkeye
#41. In life, we often have to make decisions that aren't easy. But it doesn't mean they aren't right.
Abbi Glines
#42. Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.
Nora Roberts
#43. [Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.
Theodore J. Forstmann
#44. Before, I was paralyzed, though I didn't really know it," he said. "It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind. It was hard to make decisions. I felt immobilized.
Donna Tartt
#45. Haz decisiones basada en tu conciencia porque al final del dia tu sola eres la que enfrentaras tus demonios.
Make decisions based on your conscience because at the end of the day you're the one that will face your demons
Isabel Ramos
#46. It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
Robert Harris
#47. The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
Clayton M Christensen
#48. People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.
Giancarlo Esposito
#49. When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
Taylor Swift
#50. We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.
Warren Buffett
#51. I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.
Meryl Streep
#52. The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.
Ali Khamenei
#53. No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#54. I'm able to make decisions even in the face of adversity.
Nikki Sixx
#55. We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
Daniel Dennett
#56. There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there.
Colin Hanks
#57. In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.
Peter Drucker
#58. Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you've chosen.
Anton Corbijn
#59. Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.
John Wooden
#60. As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions.
Tyler Blackburn
#61. Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.
Sheryl Sandberg
#62. It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
Mike Krzyzewski
#63. When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.
William Hurt
#64. Acceptance and commitment therapy, a variant on cognitive therapy, attempts to teach people to accept rather than change their emotions and make decisions within the context of what they value, as opposed to letting negative feelings control their behavior.
Joseph E. Ledoux
#65. God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
Dallas Willard
#66. The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
Leonard Boswell
#67. General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.
Jim Talent
#68. When script is written well, then you start to make decisions of, "Well, do I want to be away from home for that long? Do I like the people involved?" When it's written well, a lot of those things go away and you can't not do it.
Michael Cudlitz
#69. If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate on automatic pilot. There are individuals that make decisions - and some make the right decisions, and some make the wrong decisions.
Jed S. Rakoff
#71. Experts don't apply rules, make decisions or solve problems.
They do what comes naturally, and it almost always works. When
they fail it often is because they are pitted against another
expert.
Robert J. Trotter
#72. You can't have all the answers now or you could never grow from making a choice. If you want to grow, you must face adversity and make decisions without having all the answers.
Eric Buffington
#73. You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability ... you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results.
Buck Rodgers
#74. You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can't anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won't be able to cut it, either.
James Spithill
#75. It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.
Bo Derek
#76. in view of God's sovereign control, God will accomplish his purposes in our lives even when we make decisions we later regret.
Edward T. Welch
#77. We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.
Sheena Iyengar
#78. Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#79. I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn't be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.
Penny Reid
#80. We are the only ones who can make decisions for ourselves about how we will handle the situations that arise in our lives. Life is not likely to get any easier, but our approach to life can change and that will make it easier.
Joyce Meyer
#81. We believe that we decide. We do make decisions. But the deeper decisions come from another part of our being that we're not particularly aware of yet.
Frederick Lenz
#82. My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature.
I wasn't really a writer. I had seen a strange beautiful light on the hills and that was all.
Patrick Kavanagh
#83. You will have to make decisions far worse. You are going to have to learn to think before you act, but never to regret your decisions, right or wrong. Otherwise, you will slowly begin to not make decisions at all.
Raymond E. Feist
#84. I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.
Meryl Streep
#85. I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
Emma Thompson
#86. People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
Brenna Yovanoff
#87. You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.
Mike Quade
#88. The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.
Lenny Abrahamson
#89. Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.
Price Pritchett
#90. Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism.
Glenn Greenwald
#91. We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
Andy Stanley
#92. What do we care about? What do we believe? Who do we want to be? How do we want our company to act and make decisions?
Eric Schmidt
#93. Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
Jacob Lew
#94. My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.
Phil Knight
#95. Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.
James Patterson
#96. He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#97. You are what you are because that is what you really want to be!
We make decisions and those decisions make us who were are!
You can judge anything in the world by this. God builds up and the Devil tears down.
Lester Sumrall
#98. We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.
Daniel Kahneman
#99. As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.
Francis Collins
#100. For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and work out recommendations, but to make decisions.
Sergei Lavrov
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