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Decisions Quotes

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you’ve got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

– Jim Yong Kim

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

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.

– Jamie Dimon

Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.

– James Comey

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren’t important.

– James Dyson

Lily’s really together – she’s a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I’m there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.

– Johnny Depp

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.

– Jonathan Swift

I think it’s important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don’t make my decisions based on ego.

– Glen Taylor

It’s easier to be responsible for the decisions that you’ve made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

– John Travolta

The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can’t be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.

– Ismail Haniyeh

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That’s part of the job.

– Janet Yellen

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I’ve sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That’s the saddest thing of all, because they’re locked up and no one else can make them.

– John le Carre

I think there’s more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

– Joe Torre

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can’t bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

– J. C. Watts

I know I’m not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don’t let that affect any of my decisions.

– Jason Aldean

I make all my decisions on intuition.

– Ingmar Bergman

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

– James Surowiecki

I don’t regret any decisions I’ve made in my life.

– Gladys Knight

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it’s efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

– Joss Whedon

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

– George C. Williams

Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it’s probably higher than that.

– Jack Dangermond

When it comes to making decisions, I’m not what you’d call a numbers guy.

– Jason Fried

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

– Joyce Meyer

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human – and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

– John P. Kotter

I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it’s about fiscal discipline and responsible spending – and smart decisions.

– Justin Trudeau

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

– Joyce Meyer

Whether you’re a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed – and that can be dangerous.

– John F. Kelly

It is vital for officials and regulators to have input from people within our businesses who understand the intricacies of how financial markets operate and the consequences of certain policy decisions.

– Jamie Dimon

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint – that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid ‘legislating from the bench.’

– Jeff Greenfield

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

– John F. Kennedy

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