Decision Quotes

• ... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Faith
  • Trust

• I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Real
  • Age
  • Serious

• The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.

  

  Walter Millis
  • Opinion
  • Force
  • Impact

• Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • Made
  • Fragile

• The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Perception
  • Differences
  • Majority

• My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

  

  Gene Ween
  • Decision
  • Absolutely
  • Interpreted

• Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Important
  • Social
  • Function

• Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Writing
  • Problem
  • Approach

• All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Change
  • Pain
  • Pleasure

• To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right people.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Environment
  • Decision
  • Motivated

• European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • Political
  • Government
  • Expression

• After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is true, this is how it was. Everyone was waiting for Russia's decision. And we had the moral right to make it but we did not. We were more than restrained. I don't even want to comment on it. In truth, we "swallowed" it.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Moral
  • Waiting
  • Independence

• There are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force.

  

  Ed Crane
  • Force
  • Affairs
  • Political Society

• If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.

  

  Ben Goldacre
  • Decision

• What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Decision
  • Quick Decisions

• You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Tomorrow
  • Forgotten
  • Deals

• When people are making the decision to put a piece of content online, they really do truly want to get it in front of the largest audience.

  Chad Hurley
  • People
  • Decision

• Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Business
  • Want
  • Decision

• I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

  

  Howard G. Cunningham
  • Decision
  • Situation
  • Make

• Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Political
  • Government
  • Benefits

• That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...

  

  Bethann Hardison
  • Decision
  • Models
  • Modern Society

• Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Responsibility
  • Decision
  • Philosopher

• The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

  

  Wilhelm Dilthey
  • Important
  • Individual
  • Development

• Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Sometimes
  • Motivational
  • Determination

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