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:

    “The women of my mother’s generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.”
    —Anna Quindlen (20th century)

    “The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants. The volatile essences which make literature cannot survive the clichés of a long series of story conferences.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “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)