Personal Decisions Quotes

Remember, it's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

I can play until I'm 40. But I won't.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

I have met with women who toward the end of their pregnancy get the worst news one could get, that their health is in jeopardy if they continue to carry to term or that something terrible has happened or just been discovered about the pregnancy. I do not think the United States government should be stepping in and making those most personal of decisions. So you can regulate if you are doing so with the life and the health of the mother taken into account.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.

As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.

These end of life decisions are so difficult and so personal that government ought to stay out of it.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

I think also what's interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what's going on in my life. Admittedly, probably, as my sister, and as someone who loves me - like, she can't wait to see become a father.

Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

I decide on the films I want to do. Sometimes I ask my father for advice, but he never forces me. He is like a friend to me. My father has been my biggest strength when it comes to cinema.

People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

I am very interested in the small decisions people make that do set you on a different road in your life. As much as we have influence over what kind of person we're going to become, there are little tests along the way.

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.

In a statement to the Associated Press earlier in the year, Jamie Lynn said she didn’t have a boyfriend. She said, ‘I’m keeping my options open.’ And by options, she meant legs.