Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

Richard Branson

When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.

Richard Branson

Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.

Richard Branson

I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting.

Richard Branson

It always pays off to focus on things that will make you feel proud. Remember this during every difficult decision you face.

Timothy McVeigh

I have great respect for human life. My decision to take human life at the Murrah Building – I did not do it for personal gain. I ease my mind in that...I did it for the larger good.

Timothy Zahn

My point is that true leaders...understand the possible consequences of their decisions, and are willing to bear that weight. The question is whether that's a step you're willing to take." -Carlist Rieekan

Rick Baker

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Tim Purpura

We have to go about our business. Certainly, we'd love to have Roger aboard. There's no doubt about it. We also understand his thought process, what he's going through to try to make this decision.

Tim Pawlenty

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

Tim McGraw

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.

Tiffeny Milbrett

Its not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

Tiger Woods

We all make decisions. But in the end, our decisions make us.

Steven Soderbergh

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

Steven Spielberg

I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.

Tom Hollander

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

Toni Morrison

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

Tom Coburn

We've gone down a road to which we don't have the answers for. That's why we have the schizophrenic decisions coming out of the Supreme Court that don't balance logically with one versus another decision.

Tina Fey

In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [...].

Tim Kaine

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

Tim Ferriss

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

Russell M. Nelson

Each day is a day of decision.

Russell Simmons

If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.

Ronald Perelman

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

Ronald Fisher

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

Sally Kirkland

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

Ron Rash

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

Susan Polis Schutz

If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.

Susan Griffin

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

Scott McClellan

We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.

Scott Lynch

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

Sharon Cooper

So the fact that the grand jury would come back and make the decision not to indict the jailers and not make a decision on Officer Encinia, it makes us feel as though there's not going to be a positive outcome for us in that regard.

Seymour Cray

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.