Quotes about Decision-making

There is nothing I value more in subordinates than their willingness to tell me I'm wrong, to challenge me, to sharpen my decision making. Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.

Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.

Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it? There may be sex or nudity or violence in the script, and then you have to say: Is it gratuitous just out to shock people? Or is it there because it has to be? If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress.

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the time we are adult, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'