Decision Quotes
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This is totally remarkable given the lack of Mr. Cook's specific connection and his decision that the University of Pittsburgh was an appropriate place to steward this American treasure - this undisturbed site.
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I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.
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My father quite honestly played no role in my decision to become an actor.
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There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.
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However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
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I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.
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When you make some great mistake,’ he philosophized, ‘it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.
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When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.
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I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.
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The decision I've made has come from my heart. That's me, to follow my heart.
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The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
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You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
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Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?
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If I make a stupid decision but don't execute it because I'm, say, lazy, then I'm lucky, not rational. However, at other times a person acts for good reasons just as she does what she thinks she shouldn't do, not knowing that they are good reasons. Just like sometimes we are a lot less rational than we think we are, it is also true that sometimes we are a lot more rational than we think we are.
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[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.
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Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.
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I made a conscious decision to believe. Every day. I keep deciding to believe.
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I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely 'cowardice' had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.
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The most valuable insight I have made about how people make decisions is that when they become skilled they don't have to make decisions - choices between options. Instead, they can draw on experience and the patterns they have acquired to recognize what to do, ignoring other options. This is the basis of the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model my colleagues and I described thirty years ago.
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There's a culture inside the NHS that is highly paternalistic. You know, 'We give them the service and they are grateful.' We have to move to shared decision-making.
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Every decision we make has to be evaluated in light of our life-changing commitment to being a servant of Christ and His kingdom.
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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.
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What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldn’t bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: ‘What do you think you’re waiting for? You’ve been in Hell for a long time already.
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Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.
