Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Alan Greenspan

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Javier Solana

We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

David Allen

There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

We're still in this position where we haven't made a lot of decisions yet.

Dave Foley

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

David Shore

You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

David Miliband

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Byron Katie

Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear.

Byron Katie

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

Cesare Pavese

A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

Carlos Santana

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Camilo Villegas

I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

C. Northcote Parkinson

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

Hilary Rosen

We are pleased with the court's decision today.

We are pleased with the court's decision and we look forward to proceedings in the district court.

Jack Layton

We are a democratic party. I respect and support the decision that has been made.

There are decisions we have to make that we don't like a bit. This was the hardest thing I've had to do. I was his first pitching coach.

There are some decisions made historically that we would undo if we could.

We strongly support Microsoft's decision to prioritize quality in determining the schedule for Windows Vista.

Lee Haney

We're in a holding pattern waiting for that. We haven't received a decision and the election is right around the corner.

When you've got a situation and the mayor's out of town, you've got to have someone making the decisions,

William Shakespeare

For what I will, I will, and there an end.

Nick Woodman

When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.

Bob Newhart

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

David Drake

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Duchovny

I don't make decisions based on money.