Decides Quotes

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Imagination decides everything.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.