Decision Quotes - Page 5

• Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Fuel, Belief, Transcendentalism

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.147, Conari Press

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• Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Process

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• Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Knowing, Issues, Forever

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• My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

  Barry Sanders

  Heart, Games, Desire

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• Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Meat Eating

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

  Andy Stanley

  Wise, Vision, Catalyst

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• The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I haven't slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways.

  Drake

  Love, Relationship, Moving On

  Song: Unforgettable, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

  Gisela Richter

  Inspirational, Mistake, Failure

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• People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

  F. Matthias Alexander

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.

  Chris Hadfield

  Decisions You Make, Tonight, Tomorrow

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• Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perfect, Judgement, Life Is

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• I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Girl, Average, Looks

  Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”

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• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Funny Retirement, Retiring

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• All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.

  Tony Robbins

  Exercise, Clarifying, Values

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• Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

  John Henry Newman

  Slender, Evidence, Occasions

  John Henry Newman (1844). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.290, Aeterna Press

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• I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Philosophy, Party, Struggle

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• I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

  Kathleen Raine

  Evil, Hell, Claims

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• Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

  Saul Bellow

  Tree, Alternatives, Grows

  SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

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• Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Judgement, Poor, Persons

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• The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

  Bill Forsyth

  Emotional, People, Interesting

  Interview with Gerald Peary, www.geraldpeary.com. September 1985.

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• Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Sometimes, Ends, Made

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• The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

  David Sarnoff

  Mistake, Brain, Machines

  David Sarnoff (1952*). “הקידמה באלקטרוניקה”

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• If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

  Kenneth Burke

  Choices, Alternatives, Easy

  Kenneth Burke (2005). “Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke”, p.146, David R. Godine Publisher

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• You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

  Ennio Morricone

  Feels, Distinctive, Factors

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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