Bad Decision Quotes

They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.

There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he's allowed to be out on his own.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human mate. The consequences of a bad decision can be difficult for everyone involved.

I think that when we talk about the regulators and the politicians, the economic consequences of bad decisions back in '08, you know, were devastating, and they had repercussions throughout the world.

The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

Sounds good, doesn't work. Never going to happen. Our country is suffering because people like Secretary [Hillary] Clinton have made such bad decisions in terms of our jobs and in terms of what's going on.

You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.

I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God.

Taking chances for the people you care most about is easy. It's hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy. I make them without even thinking about it, it is usually something that just has to be done. You don't question anything, you just go for it.

I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

I like to believe that most human beings go about things with a point of view that they're just doing what they feel like they need to do at that time. Sometimes people make bad decisions, but it's not evil, not malicious.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

Bad decisions, good intentions.

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don't put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a "no" into a "maybe" into a "yes." If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the "yes" turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson.

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

I've made more bad decisions at 3 in the morning than I can list!

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.

If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.

Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.

So much of what I've learned, so much of what's good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right ones.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

We remain silent because we've taken on a responsibility and/or shame that was never ours to carry. Forgive yourself for things that were not your fault. Bad decisions, mistaken trust, physical weakness, or too much fear to act do not make an assault on you or someone you care about your fault. Ever.