Mike McCurry Quotes

I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.

You have to make your decision based on the content.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

It's very difficult to decide. And I'm very open to proposals.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

Critics have their uses. They can crystallize a moment and bring into sharp relief the mistakes that have been made and what must be done to correct them.

Decide: To succumb to one set of influences over another set.

By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

I have studied the situation gravely and I think I understand it well.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.

Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

You have to look at each tie and look at what your options are.

So when somebody asks me to make a decision about a situation, I don't offer a solution, I ask a question: What are our options? Give me the good, give me the bad, give me the pretty, give me the ugly, give me the impossible, give me the possible, give me the convenient, give me the inconvenient. Give me the options. All I want are options. And once I have all the options before me, then I comfortably and confidently make my decision.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.