At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual. — Raul Hilberg
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. — Paul Tillich
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. — Henry Becque
Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision. — Bernhard Langer
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan
Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others. — Abraham Zaleznik
... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything. — Ulysses S. Grant
In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive. — Viswanathan Anand
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. — Peter Drucker
The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision. — Scott Mcnealy
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us. — Herbert V. Prochnow
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Every successful person has to decide what to do in part by deciding what not to do. — Angela Duckworth
You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
The most difficult thing is the decision to act! — Amelia Earhart
The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late. — Lee Iacocca
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. — Voltaire
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time. — John Cale
Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble. — Warren Buffett
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. — Plato
With a leveraged worker, the choice of how they make the decision is far more important. — Naval Ravikant
Crucial Decision Image Quotes
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
Critical Decisions Quotes
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol. — Xavier Becerra
If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt. — Naval Ravikant
Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating critical, lucrative business opportunities, since it has a high concentration of business decision-makers. — Lewis Howes
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
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
If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end up bankrupt. — Naval Ravikant
There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation. — Sylvia Ann Hewlett
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process. — Sai Baba
Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front. — Tom Vilsack
Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. — Robert H. Schuller
Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand. — Urijah Faber
Important Decisions Quotes
Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections. — Julius Nyerere
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. — Demian Bichir
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. — Robert H. Schuller
The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it. — Snoop Dogg
The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. — Steve Jobs
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say NO to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger YES burning inside.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. — Agnes De Mille
Picking the direction is far more important than what force you apply. — Naval Ravikant
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. — Mike DeWine
I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters. — Matt Damon
Big Decisions Quotes
I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life. — Mario Lemieux
I'm a big fan of intention. That's because I have learned first-hand the power of setting my intention on my goal and making all decisions based off of that intention. — Lewis Howes
You don't want to make big decisions in a rush. — Jay Shetty
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom. — Siad Barre
We never feel completely ready for life's big decisions; but in taking the leap, we push ourselves to the next level. — Patrick Bet-David
One of my big goals professionally is to get more leaders to stop acting on intuition and experience and instead be data-driven. — Adam Grant
Don't make a permanent decision for a temporary circumstance.
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. — Robert H. Schuller
David Lynch was a big influence in how when you watch Twin Peaks or many of his films, one of the things I love is that he empowers the viewer to make their own decision about what's happening. — Duncan Trussell
In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart. — Omid Kordestani
Never make a big decision without sleeping on it. — Martha Stewart
Hard Decision Quotes
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. — Thomas Sowell
If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both — George Best
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman
You only lose what you cling to.
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. — Joel Osteen
We all have an internal life clock. Each day, we make decisions that cause the clock to tick over much faster or slower, depending on when & how much we eat, sleep & exercise. It's hard to be perfect but it helps to ask: What would my future self want me to do today? — David Sinclair
Becoming a monk was a hard decision. Leaving being a monk was harder, but it's given me so much faith in my ability to transition, and that what I learned as a monk can still serve me. — Jay Shetty
May we ever choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.
Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets; this is easy to say but evidently hard to do. You can delete more stuff than you think. — Sam Altman
It is hard to describe how much you learn by actually doing — by carefully considering all factors, making a decision, and then taking responsibility for the outcome. Unlocks wisdom that cannot be arrived at any other way. — Greg Brockman
Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United. — Robin van Persie
It's hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That's part of the joy of being a submissive. None of the decisions are yours. When you can't refuse anything and can't even move, those voices in your head go silent. All you can do, and all you are permitted to do, is feel. — Cherise Sinclair
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. — Douglas MacArthur
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams — The Rev
Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it. Right is right, even if no on is doing it.
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing. — Temple Grandin
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions. — Gary Johnson
Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer
Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. — Robert H. Schuller
That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor. — Scott McCallum
If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones. — Virginia Foxx
Hardest Decision Quotes
One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward. — Scott Jurek
Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make. — Douglas Coupland
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice. — Garry Kasparov
The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community. — Kenneth G. Wilson
The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. — Joe Andrew
In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier. — Matthew J. Kirby
We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force. — George W. Bush
I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to. — Chris Chelios
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision. — Franz Grillparzer
Time To Decide Quotes
In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do. — Rickson Gracie
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up. — Christopher McCandless
My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders. — Ronaldinho
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. — Louise Leakey
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. — Louis Leakey
And the next morning at whatever time he’d decided, he’d awaken to find me standing outside his door. No matter what had happened the night before – good game, bad game, soreness, fatigue – he was up working out every morning while most of the other guys slept. — Tim Grover
Wanna know how long it takes to get over disappointment? As long as you decide it takes. — Alex Hormozi
The problem isn’t that we don’t know how not to get punched in the face. The problem is that, at some point, likely a long time ago, we got punched in the face, and instead of punching back, we decided we deserved it. — Mark Manson
Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat! — Andy Andrews
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity. — Russell M. Nelson
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. — Eric Alterman
Climate change is a crucial issue in todays global agenda. Hopefully, we will wake up to this reality, sooner rather than later. Pressure has been mounting on European Union Member States to act decisively to fight global warming. A bold target has been set reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 by 2020. — Joseph Muscat
The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself. — Douglas Feith
The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself. — Douglas J. Feith
I have found that great people do have in common. . .an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity. — Yousuf Karsh
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial one in any love story. — Emil Ludwig
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
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. — Emil Ludwig
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. — Melina Mercouri
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
Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus. — Lucas Papademos
The very technologies that were supposed to free up our time seem instead to be consuming it, tacking hours onto our already extended days. The very interconnectedness of life in a global networked economy that creates so many opportunities also makes all our decisions more complex, crucial, even fragile. — Sally Helgesen
The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child. — Erma Bombeck
The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was crafted with the guidance of the gas industry, not of the state's scientists. — Sandra Steingraber
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them. — Magnus Carlsen
Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it. — Peter Drucker
In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions. — Don Yaeger
Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility. — Rollo May
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism. — Karl Popper
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated. — Eberhard Arnold
Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making. — Michael Eisner
I always thought I was going to end up teaching ninth grade, specifically, because I had a lot of really formative influences, I think, at that fork in the road, where a lot of crucial decisions are made by young folks. — Tim Ferriss
In a business setting, one's intelligence is crucial. Many problems faced by today's executives are unique and ill-defined. So, one's ability to analyze information and render a decision based upon the probability of success is imperative. What it comes down to is that all the knowledge in the world is useless if one has no means of processing and applying it. Organizations run on the brainpower of their people. — Justin Menkes
I am, however, deeply saddened by this [Brexit] vote by the British electorate. But I respect their decision. What is crucial now is that we focus very precisely on what Europe can do for people: stimulate investment, create jobs and together ensure the safety and security of our citizens. — Jean-Claude Juncker
When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill. — Barack Obama
What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you. — Emma Donoghue
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust. — Martin Filler
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations. — Tom Clancy
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