Decision Quotes

• It is often forgotten today that Plessy v. Ferguson was not an isolated Supreme Court decision. In case after case, the Court reaffirmed and upheld the ability of states to enforce apartheid.

  

  Erwin Chemerinsky
  • Decision
  • Ability
  • Forgotten

• Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Decision
  • Choices

• When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Quality
  • Choices

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

  

  Michael Newdow
  • Thinking
  • Constitution
  • Beens

• I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.

  

  Carson Palmer
  • Needs
  • Smart
  • Position

• Biggest mistake Reagan ever did re: foreign policy? 1984 decision to appease Hezbollah with Lebanon withdrawal.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Decision
  • Mistake
  • Foreign Policy

• Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Advice
  • Term
  • Entrepreneur

• With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

  

  Niall FitzGerald
  • Question
  • Decision
  • Consumer

• At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Boundaries
  • Fence
  • Messy

• If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Trying
  • Difficult
  • Conversation

• These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.

  

  William Thompson
  • Information
  • Significant
  • Findings

• If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation... It does not matter.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Decision
  • Values
  • Factors

• The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need to learn their why." "That politician needs to understand his why." We talk about it as a noun. That never existed prior to 2009. That never existed prior to 2006 when I first started articulating it. This is the most amazing thing to me. It has now become a concept. It's part of the way we think about businesses and transactions and decisions.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Needs
  • Company
  • Politician

• It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.

  

  Nathan Eldon Tanner
  • Decision
  • Moment
  • Temptation

• People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie, I feel that every director makes these choices. You make choices about your script, you make choices about your actors, and how you're going to stage it, and how you're going to shoot it, and what the costumes are going to be like, and in every single detail, you make that decision. And for me, what ends up happening is, I wind up surprised at the combination of all these ingredients. It never is anything like what I expected.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • People
  • Decision
  • Choices

• The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Celebrate
  • Pretending

• You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don't see any future for another band next to a band such as Nightwish, and with the ambition to become a mother, I will have to let Revamp go, which is a very sad decision.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Mother
  • Future
  • Band

• Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans, not just some. Utah's ban on marriage equality does nothing to strengthen or protect any marriage. Instead, it singles out thousands of loving Utah families for unfair treatment simply because of who they are. Our Constitution does not allow for such blatant discrimination.

  

  Chad Griffin
  • Constitution
  • Protect
  • Discrimination

• I think some love you can stand to let go of because it's ultimately for the best, but other types you have to stick with until the day you die even when it's hard.You have to think about that before you run away from wherever you are. And then when you know, you either stay or you go and pray thatyou're making the right decision.

  

  Nick Burd
  • Love
  • Decision
  • Let Go

• No decision is, in itself, a decision.

  

  William James
  • Decision

• The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Kind
  • Adaptability

• If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Quality
  • Successful

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