I actually don’t hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, ‘How will this affect my legacy?’
All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
I think how Chicago plays a role in my life – it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
I’m drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who’s probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That’s the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they’ll make. There’s a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.
When we look at the investment decisions into the city of Compton, the small business community and global corporations and retailers and all of those types of services that decide to come into the community to serve it, they look at the perception, how does the brand work with the local community.
Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn’t do for yourself.
Hitler’s economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.
As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.
Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.
With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody’s opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room – and inside the character’s heads.
There’s a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You’re also more rested – you’re not as reactive.
If you have ‘too big to fail’ for cities or for states, and they believe they’ll be bailed out, they’ll continue to make unwise decisions.
I’ve always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn’t a game. The decisions we make affect people’s lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds.
Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it’s probably higher than that.
I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
Freedom of expression – in particular, freedom of the press – guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
In communism, we never had any freedom – of movement, of speech, of press. We didn’t even make own decisions for our lives, our future. We were human robots.
An independent Scotland – like all countries – will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours.
Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.
Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.
Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We’ve shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn’t wait for people.
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don’t have to make when you’re writing.
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.
What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
It’s important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street’s quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.
No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that’s challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.
Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions.
We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.
There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
Increasingly, our decisions will be made by the algorithms that surround us. Whenever there is a big dilemma, you just ask Google what to do. And what kind of life is that?
The message I’m trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology – they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.
If you’re trying to portray that I take massive business decisions in pubs and bars, then that is total crap. It is not the norm, otherwise I’d have to live in a pub because I take business decisions all day, every day.
When you wake up every day, it’s like a new birthday: it’s a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.
I’ve always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that’s a go from me. That’s when I see the goal.
Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn’t be called decisions.
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
I have made decisions based from purely an actor’s point of view.
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
Judges make tough decisions on child abuse, divorce, property disputes, drunk driving, domestic violence and other issues that should be free from politics.
When you sign your name on the dotted line, it’s more than just playing baseball. You have a responsibility to make good decisions and show people how things are supposed to be done.
But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens’ names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself – of SOFA – and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.
