Decision

A decision is the selection between possible actions. A choice is the selection between two or more objects.

The term decision may refer to:

  • Decision making
  • Decision support system
  • Decision theory
  • Decision tree
Law and politics
  • European Union decision
  • Judgment (law), as the outcome of a legal case
  • Landmark decision, the outcome of a case that sets a legal precedent
  • Per curiam decision, by a court with multiple judges
Sports, Arts, and Entertainment
  • Decision, a song by Busta Rhymes from the album Back on My B.S.
  • Decision (baseball), a statistical credit earned by a baseball pitcher
  • Decisions (professional wrestling), a means by which a wrestler scores a point against his opponent
  • The Decision (play), by the 20th-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht
  • The Decision (TV special), in which NBA player LeBron James announced that he would switch teams
  • The Decision (Animorphs), a book in the Animorphs series
  • "The Decision" (song), by English indie rock band Young Knives
  • Decisions (album), a 1984 album by the George Adams–Don Pullen Quartet

Famous quotes containing the word decision:

    “There are many things children accept as “grown-up things” over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility—for instance, weddings, having babies, buying houses, and driving cars. Parents who are separating really need to help their children put divorce on that grown-up list, so that children do not see themselves as the cause of their parents’ decision to live apart.”
    —Fred Rogers (20th century)

    “Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this nation. This difficult effort will be the “moral equivalent of war,” except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation’s agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family’s financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)