Decision Quotes - Page 37

• With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Athlete, Simple, Endurance

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.

  Jami Floyd

  Hair, Political, Culture

  "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

  Gene Weingarten

  School, Careers, Matter

  "Tuesdays with Moron: Chatological Humor update". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 10, 2015.

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• I've always been curious what the negotiation is because obviously there's certain movies that every film wants a trailer on, like Star Wars, and I don't know how Disney makes the decisions as to what it does and doesn't put on there. I'm assuming that whatever movies are the same studio as the film get first priority, but then everybody else is fighting for the remaining spots.

  Simon Kinberg

  Stars, War, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Ignorant, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me it's much more like a little kid rebelling. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life. I come from the business side and Mark comes from the creative side, but every time a decision came up about Creep it was two emails, and we agreed. I've not had that ever with someone on the creative or the business side.

  Jason Blum

  Kids, Two, Opposites

  Source: deadline.com

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• When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

  Apolo Ohno

  Mistake, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things manufactured in China, but we would do the design, we would do the creative stuff.And now what we have done is, we have forgotten that that's what we wanted, and we're making the intellectual stuff more and more free. And, so, we're sort of left with less and less.

  Esther Dyson

  Country, Design, Creative

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• No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

  Julius Nyerere

  People, Julius, Nations

  Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1974). “Man and Development: Binadamu Na Maendeleó”

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• Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren't. But I must live my life.

  Thomas Hearns

  People, Living My Life

  "Thomas Hearns wants another title". www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

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• It's amazing how much research has gone into making some of the worst decisions.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Gone, Research, Worst

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• I'm joking, I'm joking. Best decision I ever made.

  Joe Biden

  Made

  "Joe Biden gets colorful on being a VP - and it rhymes with glitch" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.

  Jeff Bezos

  Views, People, Helping

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• We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Education, Taken, Roof

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• I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren't capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then I hope that they won't prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others.

  Vladimir Putin

  Leadership, Army, Order

  "Ukraine pro-Russia forces seize strategic Debaltseve railway hub despite truce" by Alec Luhn and Oksana Grytsenko, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

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• Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Change, Religious, Men

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• I have searched for my forehead to find a secret writing about my fate and I found no trace of destiny, but my very own decisions!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Writing, Fate, Destiny

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• The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

  Steve Blank

  Gains, Advantage, Blank

  Steve Blank, Bob Dorf (2012). “The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company”, p.115, BookBaby

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• The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. ... In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don't do it that way in America.

  Ray LaHood

  Country, Successful, America

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• We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so.

  Joyce Meyer

  Enjoy Life, Quality, Enjoy

  Joyce Meyer (2017). “Enjoy Your Journey: Find the Treasure Hidden in Every Day”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

  Jack White

  Song, Real, Character

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• What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.

  Philip Agee

  Agency, President, Doe

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• You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

  Henri Matisse

  Cutting, Want, Tongue

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

  Will Hutton

  Challenges, Degenerates, Architecture

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• The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.

  John W. Gardner

  Leader, Style, Supportive

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