Decision-Making Power Quotes

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.

If my daughter says she doesn't like something, I don't do it. It's up to Sophia.

Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who he thinks is like him in many important ways? It was a noble and sensible decision.

At 'Wicked,' they are really great about letting you make your own choices with the roles.

Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly as precious as life itself. Often, however, agency is misunderstood. While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequence of those choices. We are free to take drugs or not. But once we choose to use a habit-forming drug, we are bound to the consequences of that choice. Addiction surrenders later freedom to choose.

There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

Women don't make the decisions in the media. Even if you see women on camera, they have to answer to the person upstairs, which is mostly men. Women only hold 3% of the decision-making offices in the media.

But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.

There are so many elements of the Department of Defense that have to sign off to do anything, that any one of them was able to stop something. The only person who could make something happen was the Secretary of Defense.

I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

If you're an adult, if you are eligible to be drafted and vote, then there's a certain amount of decision-making power, and I think we have to be respectful of that.