When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
~By John Mellencamp ~
While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.
~By Eric Cantor ~
This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.
~By Rick Perry ~
I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.
~By Maxine Waters ~
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
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.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
~By Barney Frank ~
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
~By Merton Miller ~
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
~By Steve Harvey ~
I enjoy making the decisions.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
~By Jimmy Johnson ~
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
~By John Cale ~
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
~By Rex Stout ~
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
~By Edward de Bono ~
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.
~By William Scranton ~
It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
~By Robert Half ~
I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed.
~By Shelley Berkley ~
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.
~By David Boies ~
I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.
~By Michael Schiavo ~
I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.
~By Shannon Elizabeth ~
I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
~By Lech Walesa ~
You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.
~By Dave Heineman ~
The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.
~By Anne Heche ~
A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.
~By Herman Kahn ~
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
~By Charles Schumer ~
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
~By John Olver ~
It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.
~By Norm Coleman ~
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.
~By Hugh Sidey ~
Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.
~By John Hutton ~
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
~By Antony Jay ~
I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
~By Chris Robinson ~
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.
~By Terrence Howard ~
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
~By Denis Diderot ~
If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.
~By John Harrison ~
I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.
~By Rex Hunt ~
Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
~By Kiana Tom ~
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
~By Tony Goldwyn ~
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
~By B. F. Skinner ~
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
~By Don Bluth ~
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
~By Tim McGraw ~
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
~By Doug Coupland ~
It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.
~By Corey Feldman ~
If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.
~By Chris Christie ~
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
~By Keri Russell ~
The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
~By George W. Bush ~
We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
~By Roy E. Disney ~
But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.
~By Stone Gossard ~
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.
~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
~By Rex Stout ~
If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.
~By Paul Ryan ~
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
~By Gary Johnson ~
Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
~By Georg Henrik von Wright ~
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
I haven't always made the right decisions.
~By George Steinbrenner ~
As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.
~By Rick Ross ~
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
~By Sophocles ~
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
~By Alan Autry ~
A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.
~By Robert Wise ~
I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
~By Greg Egan ~
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
~By Barney Frank ~
We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.
~By George Carey ~
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.
~By Sarah Palin ~
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
~By George W. Bush ~
It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
~By John Engler ~
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
~By Ed Harris ~
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.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
~By Karen Duffy ~
I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
~By Dan Marino ~
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.
~By Kirsten Dunst ~
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
~By Brian Eno ~
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
~By Anita Brookner ~
It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
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