Make Decisions Quotes

I ignore my fear," he says. "When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist."
I stare at him for a second. I can't help it. To me there's a difference between not
being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.
- Veronica Roth

You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?'
'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.
- Veronica Roth

I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.
- Veronica Roth

The brave are those who make decisions despite their fear, who are tormented by the Devil every step of the way and gripped by anxiety about their every action, wondering if they are right or wrong. And yet nevertheless, they act.
- Paulo Coelho

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.
- Jodi Picoult

...we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law.
- Jodi Picoult

The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe,it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions.
More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.
- Jodi Picoult

These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back home. That's not how to make a life. I want a girl to come in knowing full well what she's getting into and being able to deal and make decisions that will create a career.
- Carol Alt

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
- Mario Andretti

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
- Oprah Winfrey

Today is a new day. Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.
- Steve Maraboli

There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. [...] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.
- Paul Auster

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
- Alan Autry

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.
- Oksana Baiul

[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn't interpreted, then it can't be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people.
- Rob Bell

If our future generations were much wilier than us,
then it might be them who have led us all this time,
to make decisions which fit to their pre-existence,
left us live in the world of uncertainty or by faith.
- Toba Beta

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
- Michael Bloomberg

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

Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
- Carly Fiorina

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
- Orson Scott Card

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
- Doug Coupland

Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.
- Stephen Covey

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

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
- Roy E Disney

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
- Byron Dorgan

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
- Peter Drucker

If I had even the slightest grasp upon my own faculties, I would not make essays, I would make decisions.
- Michel De Montaigne

When you make decisions, you deal with consequences. Don't expect anything in return.
- Winna Efendi

How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.
- Dave Eggers

Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly.
- Gretel Ehrlich

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
- Chris Evans

I can't be anything but what I am, Elle. If you want a man who is going to treat you like a broken doll, you sure as hell come to the wrong place. And if you expect me to step aside and let you make decisions that are ultimately going to harm you, then baby, you definitely have the wrong man because I protect my woman. Right or wrong, politically correct or not, I stand in front of her when there's need.
- Christine Feehan

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.
- James Patterson

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.
- Tana French

Addictions started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were less intelligent than goldfish.
- William Gibson

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.
- Alberto Gonzales

Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.
- Karen White

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.
- Christine Gregoire

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.
- Lisa Guerrero

That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.
- Kim Harrison

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
- Henry A Kissinger

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.
- Eloisa James

So I would choose to be with you,
That's if the choice were mine to make,
But you can make decisions too,
And you can have this heart to break
- Billy Joel

There is no resting place along the path called faithfulness. The trek is constant, and no lingering is allowed. It must not be expected that the road of life spreads itself in an unobstructed view before the person starting his journey. He must anticipate coming upon forks and turnings in the road. But he cannot hope to reach his desired journey's end if he thinks aimlessly about whether to go east or west. He must make decisions purposefully.
- Thomas S Monson

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
- Joyce Meyer

To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
- Karen Kain

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.
- Mark Kennedy

I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.
- Nicole Kidman

Papa, I'm ashamed that you think women are so simple. We can make decisions for ourselves too, you know. I'm not a child or a baby anymore, so I'm allowed to speak my mind. And if you don't wish to hear it, just tell me so and I'll go into another room-but I'll speak it anyway. I want this for myself as much as I've never wanted the diplomatic corps and I'm going to get it-even if I have to do it alone. Excuse me.
- Steve Kluger

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
- Alison Krauss

When you do what's important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are acceptable to you no matter what happens tomorrow.
- John Kuypers

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
- Heath Ledger

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
- Jacob Lew

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.
- Carolyn Mackler

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.
- Theresa May

Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.
- Scott Mccallum

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
- Danica Mckellar

I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.
- Stephenie Meyer

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
- Samuel E Morison

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
- Rupert Murdoch

At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.
- Dick Murphy

It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.
- Georgios A Papandreou

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
- Michelle Obama

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.
- Christopher Paolini

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.
- Kelly Preston

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.
- Dixie Lee Ray

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.
- Mike Quade

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
- Tom Ridge

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
- Bob Riley

Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.
- Nora Roberts

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
- Chris Robinson

I make decisions based on logic and fact.
- James E Rogers

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

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

Don't entrust your future on others' hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God's guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them!
- Hark Herald Sarmiento

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)
- Swami Satchidananda

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
- Ridley Scott

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

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.
- Hugh Sidey

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, for reasons that often remain obscure , we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning.
- Dai Sijie

Beat sprouts, I croaked, ashamed I'd reached a point in my life where I had to make decisions like choosing between bean sprouts or potato chips (and then going with fucking bean sprouts!).
- Brando Skyhorse

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
- Iain Duncan Smith

I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.
- Sharon Stone

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.
- James Talent

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

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
- Paul Wellstone

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
- Norbert Wiener

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.
- Robert Wise

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.
- Orrin Woodward