Quotations about Decisions

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ~Rita Mae Brown

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~Roy Disney

Choices are the hinges of destiny. ~Attributed to both Edwin Markham and Pythagoras

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons;
for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. ~Lord
Mansfield

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. ~Brendan Francis

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. ~Author
Unknown

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling
on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull

Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~David Russell

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious
factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~Herman Broch

Indecision becomes decision with time. ~Author Unknown

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and
every part of your life in an instant. ~Anthony Robbins

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore

To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the
crossroads. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon

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Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.
~Anso Coetzer

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ~T.S. Eliot

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Author
Unknown

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce

The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. ~Author Unknown

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~Denis Waitley
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” Flora Whittemore quotes

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” Tom Robbins
quotes (American Novelist. b.1936)

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” Keri Russell quotes

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion” Chinese
Proverbs quotes

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities
and go to work.” H. L. Hunt quotes

“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.” Sophocles quotes (One of classical Athens' three great
tragic playwrights)

“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest
of our lives.” Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull',
b.1936)

“Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.” General
George S. Patton quotes (American General in World War I and II, 1885-1945)

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper
tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and
the procedure , the process is its own reward.” Amelia Earhart quotes

“There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most
insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle” Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French
General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)

“We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.” Gary Collins
quotes

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness
of destructive selfishness.” Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes (American Baptist Minister and Civil-
Rights Leader. 1929-1968)

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“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.” Marcel Proust
quotes (French Novelist and Author, 1871-1922)

“Don't you ever wonder maybe if you took a left turn instead of a right you could be someone
different?”

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision” Peter
F. Drucker quotes (American Educator and Writer, b.1909)

“It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”

“My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make
them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them
because they're right.” Theodore Hesburgh quotes (American Clergyman, University President)

“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of
course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard
and who vote - a very different thing.” Walter H. Judd quotes

“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as
it is, but the world as it will be. . ..” Isaac Asimov quotes (Russian born American science-
fiction Writer and Biochemist. 1920-1992)
“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your
freedom to choose” Thornton Wilder quotes (American writer of innovative plays and novels,
1897-1975)

“When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all
responsibility and care about the outcome” William James quotes (American Philosopher and
Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)

“It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great
decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it
a good decision.” William Pollard quotes

“But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try
to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.” Kirsten Dunst quotes (American Actress (Interview
with the Vampire), b.1982)

“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it” Harry S
Truman quotes (American 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)

“An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler
through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.” Edward de Bono quotes ((Francis
Charles Publius) Maltese Psychologist and Writer, leading authority in field of creative thinking.
b.1933)

“Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.” Paul Tillich quotes (German born
American Theologian and Philosopher, whose discussions of God and faith illuminated and
bound together the realms of traditional Christianity and modern culture. 1886-1965)

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go
walking around outside your body.” Elizabeth Stone quotes

“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are
out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it
longer than anyone else.” Brian Tracy quotes (American television host)

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“The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation,
and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence” Anne O'Hare
McCormick quotes (American journalist, 1882-1954)

“There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and
decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally
speaking, must not intrude.” Geoffrey Fisher quotes
“Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams
come true.”

“Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...”

“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe
something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.” Elie Wiesel
quotes (Romanian born American Writer. Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986. b.1928)

“Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know
that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me
I should do” Lillian Hellman quotes (American Playwright, 1905-1984)

“Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is
the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply
embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective”

“When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice,
assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the
most honest, and then stick to it” Chester Bowles quotes

“A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself” John Watson Foster quotes

“Do not employ handsome servants” Chinese Proverbs quotes

“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians
or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war
against children” Howard Zinn quotes (American Historian, Author, Professor and Political
activist, b.1922)

“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.” Bob Marley quotes (Jamaican Singer,
Composer and Guitarist. 1945-1981)

“He has a different way of dealing with things and people, but he has demonstrated he can be
very stubborn in his decisions. When he decides something, he definitely goes forward.” Emma
Bonino quotes

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
Author: Fletcher Knebel

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. Author: Frank Barron

A decision made at night may be changed in the morning. Author: Samoan Proverb

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon
Bonaparte

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. Rita Mae Brown

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 A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. Karl Kraus

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people
walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? Elias Canetti

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson

No answer is also an answer. German Proverb

Guess if you can, choose if you dare. Pierre Corneille

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Anthony
Robbins

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Chinese
Proverb
The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine
destiny.Frederick Speakman

We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. Jonathan Westover

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to
do.Elbert Hubbard

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it undone.
Bernard Gilpin

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to
unseat one's own tooth. Gene Fowler

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very
end, so do the best you can and hope its right. Lily Collins

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to
be undecided about them. Laurence J. Peter

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-
stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. Marcel Proust

A collection of decision quotes that contain inspirational words of wisdom. We all make
decisions, the difference is how and when we make them.

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"Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision."
Anthony Robbins

"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are
out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it
longer than anyone else."
Brian Tracy
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
William James
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
Peter Drucker
"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you
haven't truly decided."
Anthony Robbins
"..the H.A.L.T. method. Never make a decision when you are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired."
David DeNotaris
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to
make their own decision."
Denis Waitley

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in
bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of
bed and be thankful for the ones that do."
Author Unknown, from Each Day is a Gift
"I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of
attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures,
fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my
position."
Charles Swindoll
"We all possess something called "intuition". It's an inner "knowing' which, when paid attention
to, will help us make decisions and even prevent us from making mistakes!"
Anita Foley, from If Only You'd Listen to Your Own Intuition
"It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."
Anthony Robbins
"Sometimes, managers become so occupied with the day to day decisions and putting out fires,
they lose sight of the long term decisions, opportunities, and challenges that face the

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corporation."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Good-bye Manager, Hello Coach!
"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider
all the pros and cons."
Sigmund Freud
"Other people look at failure as an opportunity to revisit past decisions and to devise new
strategies."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Do Not Be Discouraged
"All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it."
Harry S. Truman
"Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time
off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing
which color to slide down on the rainbow."
Douglas Pagels
"How you react to situations is your personal choice. It is your decision, and yours alone, to
determine the importance you give to any situation."
Catherine Pulsifer, from INFERIOR WITHOUT CONSENT?
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow
yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making
the first decision."
Robyn Davidson
"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is
getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."
Jim Rohn
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper
tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and
the procedure , the process is its own reward."
Amelia Earhart
"A team based environment demands that you make responsible decisions; it requires you to
take charge of your career."
Catherine Pulsifer, from TEAMS
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
Aneurin Bevan
"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."
Gary Collins
"When you rise for an instant, foresee the final day and do that day what you wish you would
have. When you are confronted with a decision, for an instant, foresee the final day and handle
it the way you wish you would have. When you arrive home after a hard day, for an instant,
foresee the final day and offer your heart to those you love, the way you wish you would have."
Michelle C. Ustaszeski
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the
wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and
go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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Erica Jong

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Harry A. Overstreet
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you
want. Ben Stein

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have
merit. The key is to get started. Unknown Author

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where
he is to where he wants to go. John Pierpont Morgan

Then indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing
as a life in-between. Pat Riley

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning. Graeme Edwards

Long-range planning works best in the short term. Doug Evelyn

Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be. Robert Collier

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them
because they're right. Theodore Hesburgh

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives,
then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out. Ronald Reagan
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known
silently. Agnes DeMille

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the
moment... if it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity
and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Paul J. Meyer

Decision quotes - the importance of decision

making
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

"The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine
destiny. "
Frederick Speakman

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you
want."
Ben Stein

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."

Tom Robbins

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion"
Chinese proverb

"To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over
again, without enough data for a logical answer. "
Robert Heinlein

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
Eric Hoffer

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"If you had one shot,
one opportunity,
to seize everything you ever wanted,
one moment,
would you capture it,
or just let it slip..."
Eminem

"Sir, What is the secret of your success?" a reporter asked a bank president.
"Two words."
"And, sir, what are they?"
"Good decisions."
"And how do you make good decisions?"
"One word."
"And sir, what is that?"
"Experience."
"And how do you get Experience?"
"Two words."
"And, sir, what are they?"
"Bad decisions."
Anon

"It is the theory that decides what can be observed. "

Albert Einstein

"Whether you decide you can or you can't, you're right!"

Anon

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known
silently."
Agnes de Mille

Decision quotes - indecision

As a decision, this is a poor choice. So some decision quotes about indecision as a
decision!

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."
Gary Collins

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"Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt,
unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."
Rita Coolidge

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

"It's much better to prepare and not have the opportunity than to have the opportunity and not be
prepared."
Anon

"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you
can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt

"When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything."
General George Patton

"Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears
and leaves ragged edges behind it."
Gordon Graham

And a few older decision quotes along the same lines...

"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall
victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire."
T. Boone Pickens

"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
The Principles of Psychology 1890

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

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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
Aneurin Bevan

Decision quotes - against reason

And some decision quotes that undermine the idea that rationale and logic is the
best way to go.

"One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this
world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared
to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride."
Richard Nelson Bolles

"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider
all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the
decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important
decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature."
Sigmund Freud

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."
George Savile

"Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the
end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith."
Nathan Myhrvold in "The Microsoft Provocateur"

"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions."
Mike Krzyzewski

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a
loss.
Noam Chomsky

Decision quotations - career

Decision quotes involving work and careers that suggest aligning who you are with
what you do.

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"Make a living by doing what you enjoy, and you never have to work a day in your life."
Confucius

"What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You
don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be
successful in it. "
Lee Iacocca

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work
or play."
Warren Beatty

"The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's a different kind of life"
Buckminster Fuller

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To
map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't wait for opportunity to come knocking on your door... go out and give it directions."
Anon

"If a man advances confidently in the direction of his dreams to live the life he has imagined, he
will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau

"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are
out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it
longer than anyone else."
Brian Tracy

"We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow."
Jonathan Westover

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to
do."

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Elbert Hubbard

"Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else
to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own
instincts."
Sergio Bambaren

"I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point
was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve
success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people
never make it at all."
Brian Tracey

Decision quotes - time Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.
Harry S. Truman

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos
To make decisions on a lifestyle of simplicity - sounds easy? It is a decision, however, that requires a lot of thinking, commitment and
determination.
Catherine Pulsifer, from Decide
By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary.
Robin Harris
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your
greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy
Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.
Author Unknown, from Each Day Is A Gift
When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.
General George Patton
You can't predict, you can prepare. Experience the power of making decisions based on security instead of worry, readiness instead of
reluctance, abundance instead of lack.
Kathy Gates
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do
is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Decisions Quotes A-Z by Author

Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and
most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you
experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.
Robert G Allen - Money - Life - Decisions

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You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it
works.
Giorgio Armani - Design - Fashion - Clothes - Decisions

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any
decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
Julian Assange - Truth - Lies - Decisions - Ignorance

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a
career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.
Sarah Beeny - Money - Decisions - Earnings - Relationships - Career

My position is that I am personally opposed to abortion, but I don't think I have a right to impose my
view on the rest of society. I've thought a lot about it, and my position probably doesn't please anyone. I
think the government should stay out completely. I will not vote to overturn the Court's decision. I will
not vote to curtail a woman's right to choose abortion. But I will also not vote to use federal funds to
fund abortion.
Joe Biden - Politics - Government - Religion - Society - Voting - Woman - Abortion - Decisions

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair - Leadership - Decisions

My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision.. if the job description were, what do you do.. it's
decision maker.
George Bushism - Jobs - Decisions - Stupid - Leadership - President

We believe ranchers and farmers and family business owners can make better decisions about the
future than the government can.
George Bush - Politics - Belief - Government - Taxes - Farming - Decisions

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no.
Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!
Jack Canfield - Goals - Success - Decisions

Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your
own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else’s projects. You can only get ahead with your
desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle.
Jack Canfield - Success - Goals - Feelings - Decisions - Focus

Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility
for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must
proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
Carlos Castaneda - Warrior - Knowledge - Regret - Decisions - Responsibility - Doubt - Action

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious
choice, and discipline.
Jim Collins - Great - Discipline - Decisions

I think the most important CEO task is defining the course that the business will take over the next five
or so years. You have to have the ability to see what the business environment might be like a long
way out, not just over the coming months. You need to be able to both set a broad direction, and also
to take particular decisions along the way that make that broad direction unfold correctly.
Chris Corrigan - Management - Decisions - Business - Planning

You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision

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between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap
decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make
errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done,
because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got
to do it.
Peter Costello - Decisions - Social - Politics - Jobs

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I
also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and
affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the
whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated
and harmonized.
Stephen Covey - Commitment - Decisions - Goals - Life - Self Help

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we
carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey - Life - Self Help - Decisions -

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power
of choice.
Stephen Covey - Change - Life - Responsibility - Decisions -

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Peter Drucker - Decisions - Skill -

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only
senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
Peter Drucker - Decisions - Mistakes - Management

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are,
where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
Peter Drucker - Leadership - Strength - Management - Decisions

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

Philip Green - Decisions - Intelligent

Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.
Takafumi Horie - Thinking - Decisions

If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate
you and condemn me.
John Howard - Politicians - Decisions - Australia

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley - Decisions - Responsibility

What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. You don’t
have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don’t like it you’ll never be successful in it.

Lee Iacocca - Jobs - Life - Successful - Decisions - Passions

We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that’s centered on not only making sound
business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of
society. We are also a company that understands community.
Magic Johnson - Community - Business - Giving - Companies - Philosophy - Decisions - Society -

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Understanding

My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good
for the shareholders and for the company.
Philip Knight - Jobs - Decisions - Business Ideas - Companies

Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to
win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many
companies on an exclusive basis.
Henry Kravis - Companies - Buying - Selling - Experience - Decisions - Investing - Management -
Confidence

I became a vegan and at the same time I realized, gosh, Whole Foods has got to create a higher
standard here. I think it will ultimately be a good business decision because I think our customers
expect us, want us to pave this path.
John Mackey - Customers - Business - Business Ethics - Responsibility - Decisions

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow - Growth - Decisions - Encouragement

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
Dr Phil - Decisions - Encouraging

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother
of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved
by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the
direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for
what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.
Michael Moore - Influential - Decisions - Encouragement - President - Gratitude - Action

If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a
hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced
on them with vigor
Charlie Munger - Investing - Best - Decisions - Opportunity

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every
turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
Rupert Murdoch - Strength - Decisions -

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every
growth opportunity on its merits.
James Packer - Growth - Decisions - Opportunity

Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising
integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.
Azim Premji - Truth - Decisions - Actions - Challenges

We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money.
Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.
Bob Proctor - Earnings - Money - Good - Decisions - Poverty

Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any
pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people.. of its
citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to
have before.

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Vladimir Putin - Society - Russia - Democracy - History - Decisions

I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to
Cruise was mine.
Sumner Redstone - Decisions - Advice

We all have to decide how we are going to fail.. by not going far enough or by going too far.
Sumner Redstone - Decisions - Challenges - Risk - Failure

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action,
you haven't truly decided.
Anthony Robbins - Decisions - Action

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every
part of your life in an instant.
Anthony Robbins - Decisions - Change

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own
decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.
Charles Saatchi - Art Collecting - Investing - Decisions

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a
company's culture. When you realize you've made a mistake, you need to cut your losses and move
on.
Howard Schultz - Employee - Management - Jobs - Decisions - Art - Companies - Culture - Mistakes

Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive
action.
Jose Silva - Action - Decisions - Success

Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years
old. There’s no absolute timeline for anyone. That’s a good reason never to give up, to keep on
discovering things every day.
Donald Trump - Decisions - Life

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America
was run like a business.
Donald Trump - Accounting - Business - Decisions

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or
how much power you have.
Oprah Winfrey - Decisions - Power - Action -

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet
for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey - Life - Decisions - Money -

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do
nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the
wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do
nothing.
Oprah Winfrey - Decisions - Learning - Action

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in
relevance.

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 Sam Zell - Companies - Culture - Change - Decisions

In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those
ends up being worth doing. That might be a function of risk. That might be a function of price. There are
all the variables. But you have to be constantly sorting and choosing and prioritizing.
Sam Zell - Decisions - Opportunity - Interested - Risk - Buying

And a few decision quotations about time and how we can decide to perceive and
use it.

"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Albert Einstein

"Learn from the past but realise that it is no longer the key to the future."
Anon

"No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless."
John R Rice

"The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is
contained within ourselves."
Loren Eiseley

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Anon

"A conclusion is just simply the place where someone decided to stop."
Marsala

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."

Peter Drucker

"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
Peter Drucker

"Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that
only senior executives decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."

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Peter Drucker

"A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the
answer does not suggest itself."
Arthur W. Radford

"You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a Board that has to be
consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."
Rupert Murdoch

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are
temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. James Callaghan

Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're
going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will
bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
Tony Dorsett

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it

undone.
Bernard Gilpin

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Edward W. Howe

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting
ready to skin you.
Kin Hubbard

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly
becomes clear what one means to do.A. C. Benson

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes,
merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.
Frank Crane

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca

Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them
have turned out not to have been right.Donald Bullock

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any
topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties.
Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. Dave Barry

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 Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many
people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?. Elias Canetti
Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course. Adrian Cadbury

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without

debating it.
Jeseph Joubert

I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.Jean-paul Vadnais

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Morley

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he
does, he is wasting water. African Proverb

Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on
them.
Oliver A. Fick

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. George Canning

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Anonymous

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to
make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. Omar Nelson Bradley

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. Henri Becquerel

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
Gary Collins

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own
deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or
impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow
of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining
capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up
wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value

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women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Tony Robbins

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters
most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to
decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our
conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Stephen Covey

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job
security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy
jobs.
Jack Welch

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Peter Drucker

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make
decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous
mistake.
Peter Drucker

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have
consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the
world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made.
And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.
George W. Bush

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of

Americans.
George W. Bush

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low
time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst
moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move
into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams
come true.
Robert H. Schuller

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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may
legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the
decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of
mankind.
Jonathan Swift

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line.
Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
Donald Trump

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not
a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where
we are today.
Sarah Palin
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always
came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than
by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital;
it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and
insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what
decisions to make.
Henry A. Kissinger

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Sophocles

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's
much easier to be told what to do.
Marilyn Manson

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Arthur Ashe

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and
majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send
others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Golda Meir

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
Mike Krzyzewski

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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of
those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind
locked doors.
Jimmy Carter

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements

simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of
the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be
for.
David Attenborough

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad
decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up
to is important to me.
Justin Bieber

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel
of your fears.
Thomas S. Monson

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a
counter authority to the law.
Denis Diderot

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an
economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a
soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I
can't take decisions about education.
Thabo Mbeki

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on
people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug
has these negative effects.
Thabo Mbeki

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

Donald Rumsfeld

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the
information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or
persuasively implemented.
Donald Rumsfeld
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives.
Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully
implemented.
Donald Rumsfeld

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will
be random.
Donald Rumsfeld

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but

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don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
Donald Rumsfeld

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and
tone.
Donald Rumsfeld

It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
Robert Half

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not
connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing
about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they
think is right.
Steve Harvey

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making

health care decisions.
Barbara Boxer

I haven't always made the right decisions.

George Steinbrenner

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these
programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping
the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the
previous supporters reconsidered.
Barney Frank

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy

implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that
result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on
decisions they themselves take.
Barney Frank

In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the
products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant
economic decisions to the capitalists.
Barney Frank

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers
are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
Barney Frank

Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of
us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those
decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's
way.
Laura Bush

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of
your freedom to choose.

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Thornton Wilder

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good
feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of
your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the
decisions that you make.
Puff Daddy

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their
bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make
totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
Twyla Tharp

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being
liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it
takes to win.
Maxine Waters

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is
made known silently.
Agnes de Mille

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do
good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and
leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly
invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are

made based on power rather than intelligence.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the
rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been
made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else
can make them.
John Le Carre

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back
without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to
cut error, waste and fraud.
David Cameron

I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the
criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's
terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't
like.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone
will affect my decisions.
Sandra Day O'Connor

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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and
decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice
than we do.
Wendell Berry

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't
tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
Jimmy Johnson

But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with
Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole
thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
Alex Lifeson

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very
much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's
been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the
character.
Nicole Kidman

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to
regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

Edwin Louis Cole

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are
temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
James Callaghan

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just
perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
Chuck Close

You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after
announcements are made.
Simon Pegg

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the
ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
Paul Wellstone

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a

point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.
Carroll Quigley

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

Moshe Dayan

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes
decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Brian Eno

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I never make conscious decisions.
Anthony Hopkin
If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the
full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.
Elena Kagan

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you
have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for
the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because
it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.
Joss Whedon

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.
Mary Tyler Moore

I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if
you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right
decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
Dan Marino

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really
pretty boring to most.
Dan Abrams

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm
human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Queen Latifah

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique
opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions,
knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.
Rod Blagojevich

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I
made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important
to Him.
Jesse Helms

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking

up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.
Rick Ross

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith
leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's
there in your conscience.
Tim McGraw

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect.

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An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of
decision, then he is no good.
Bernard Law Montgomery

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

Justin Timberlake

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political
faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association
for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
William O. Douglas

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his
decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a
control freak.
Paul Gascoigne

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional

arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and
hence incapable of being an end in itself.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of
view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
Christian Bale

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to
have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they
become entirely selfish.
Anita Brookner

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has
to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
Rupert Murdoch

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

John Mellencamp

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

Ridley Scott

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or

whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going
to happen.

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Michael Bloomberg

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm
trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
Kevin Mitnick

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the
past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
Gerry Adams

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that

were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
Kevin Costner

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect
for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much
respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about
war.
Avril Lavigne

I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for
other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just
some people.
Sharon Stone

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the
time when it's seemingly smooth.
Doug Coupland

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get
decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So
the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo
artist.
Graham Nash

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are
implemented.
Harold S. Geneen

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self
confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.
Kirsten Dunst

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on

fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a
suit.
Herman Kahn

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Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the
information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right
decisions are made.
Jean-Francois Lyotard

At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might
be.
Dick Murphy

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular

participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation
is the essence of our democracy.
Corazon Aquino

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would
actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which
I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
Kazuo Ishiguro

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

Lord Mountbatten

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
Roy E. Disney

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Marvin Bower

I enjoy making the decisions.

Stuart Pearce

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for
something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.
Terrence Howard

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is
constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they
can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political
process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that,
approaching India as a friend.
John W. Snow

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are
going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.
Alberto Gonzales

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And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I
believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow
these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.
Jon Porter

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are
talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on
cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.
Kevin J. Anderson

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he
is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
Bob Woodward

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
John Lithgow

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a
difficult decision.
Jim Bunning

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
Herbert Prochnow

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

Gladys Knight

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

Oksana Baiul

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how
their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some
place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over
them.
Robert Teeter

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new
people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide
you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a
way.
Dido Armstrong

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really
believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our
international trading partners.
Mike Johanns

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There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along
the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are
guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.
Michael Nesmith

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Sidney Blumenthal

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not
necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you
choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it
determines many factors.
Atom Egoyan

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice
and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.
Kathleen Turner

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.
Darren L. Johnson

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many
policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has
accountability or that they can influence.
Robert Teeter

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their
own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the
best possible light.
Bruce Jackson

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is
inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's
boss to get that changed.
Bob Schieffer

Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your
decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.
Mark Ruffalo

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has
been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and
people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
Michael K. Simpson

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence
and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some
reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.

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John Hutton

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great
business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in
both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
Christie Hefner

I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those
important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by
being your father without getting intimately involved.
Birch Bayh

In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have
asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn
quickly I couldn't do that.
Jurgen Klinsmann

I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country
and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens
of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.
Jim Gerlach

But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and
how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire
somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you
tell them what to do.
Jeffrey Jones

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited.
Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names-
parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
Mark Kennedy

But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to
basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term
assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
Fred Thompson

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which
again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
Mike Johanns

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat
in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
Charles Schumer

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated
through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together

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to form a history.
Martin Kippenberger

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next
generation.
Alan Autry

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to
his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were
sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
Brent Scowcroft

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young:
when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.
Joshua Lederberg

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have
simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their
views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
Peter Mandelson

When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My
brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong
decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.
Ruud van Nistelrooy

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.
Kelly Preston

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that
we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the
circumstances that we are now in.
Ann Veneman

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be
swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this
band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making
process.
Stone Gossard

I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best
job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave
the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.
Robbie Coltrane

On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail
about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I
hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

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Jay Roach

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not
accountants.
Charles Schumer

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for
ourselves and our families.
Dan Lipinski

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

George Carey

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated
numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make
prudent career decisions.
Jim Evans

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this
foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
Armstrong Williams

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American
century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history
we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad,
universal access to quality education.
Ken Mehlman

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the

circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler
on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such
problems.
Hans Frank

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made
and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned
our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
John Sherman Cooper

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist
conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes
it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and
policies in Europe and Asia.
John T. Flynn

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this
responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made
which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.

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Hjalmar Schacht

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand
animation, things can go awry.
Don Bluth

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your
trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an
education.
Bobby Vinton

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach
her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we
sometimes have to guide her.
Kent McCord

What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country
is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.
Michael Schiavo

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director
be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring
that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
Leonard Boswell

And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized,
that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed
to make decisions.
William Scranton

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers
and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.
Mark Kennedy

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
John Engler

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to
make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions
that we make. We should be skeptical.
Dixie Lee Ray

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to

make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the
quality of our lives will get better.
Christine Gregoire

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The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent
civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and
occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
John Olver

I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like
cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do -
and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
Scott Stapp

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started
making good ones.
Bob Riley

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to
spend your time.
Lisa Guerrero

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead -
higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless
recovery.
Karl Rove

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their
future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are
made.
Jane D. Hull

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw
up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's
part of success.
Arianna Huffington

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this
engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50
years maybe.
Aleksander Kwasniewski

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our
working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity
for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
Blanche Lincoln

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public
deserves no less.
Fred Thompson

Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on

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future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not
politicians in Washington.
Howard Coble

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
Harri Holkeri

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all
about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the
road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
Mike DeWine

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any
decisions I have made.
Kiana Tom

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without
justifying them.
Peter Mandelson

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude
about time.
John Cale

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I
tended to overbook my life.
Sheena Easton

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee
to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I
supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.
Anne Heche

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important
issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.
Mats Sundin

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions
at the time.
Jimmy Carl Black

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture
is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
Parminder Nagra

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While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to
base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.
Ron D. Burton

My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some
cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the
resources we had at the state level.
Scott McCallum

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the
limelight.
Ed Harris

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.
Jurgen Klinsmann

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without
regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb
the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Mike Rounds

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most
of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
Rex Stout

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even
tougher ones.
Virginia Foxx

If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the
states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further
behind... by going first, we can become first.
Chris Christie

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

Mike Johanns

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and
partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the
conventions of the computer field.
Ted Nelson

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge,

Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio
decisions, writing reports.
Merton Miller

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We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political
decisions.
Harri Holkeri

We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who
are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is
that more important than in the area of national security.
Chris Van Hollen

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every
time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the
farmhouse.
Ben Nelson

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely

escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to
make some even tougher decisions.
Gerard Arpey

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no
perspective on.
Jena Malone

Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think
the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based
on those view points.
Scott McCallum

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really
get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the
government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some
of these decisions they make.
Rex Hunt

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us,
and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of
judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
Jim Bunning

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the
way we make decisions.
Byron Dorgan

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making
all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
Sue Grafton

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What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln,
himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions
that he did, and how he implemented them.
David Herbert Donald

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions
and go with them.
Ted Shackelford

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next
words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I
made are the right decisions.
Rich Lowry

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the
decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed
hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.
Norm Coleman

It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of

their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they
can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
Daniel Akaka

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all
right to be square, simple, and sober.
Martha Reeves

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as

much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their
ramifications in making our decisions.
Dorothy Denning

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a
team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
Bernard Cornwell

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next
several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges
on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the
military.
Duncan Hunter

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide

the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management
decisions.
Samuel Wilson

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The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper
decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst
scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.
Tom Hayden

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable,
emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about
making any other major decisions in my life.
Karen Duffy

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority
rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory
legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental
rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.
David Boies

That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at
all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.
Scott McCallum

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do
with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a
luxury problem.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three,
because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance
out the time and attention between them.
Patricia Richardson

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions.
They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed
up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a
trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.
Fred Barnes

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position

than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
Samuel Wilson

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist

organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff
and not by any third party.
Jim Walton

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the
Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
Shimon Peres

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In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the
past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that
affect the people.
Wilma Mankiller

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the
language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements
that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any
changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.
Howard Baker

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by
thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
Helen Garner

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an
existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone
facing the need for a new language must make.
Guido van Rossum

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the
last two years.
Jenny Shipley

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until
2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.
Jenny Shipley

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and
the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come
together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
Mark Warner

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad
decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse.
And that's what I find funny.
Dave Rowntree

The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political
decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one
side or the other being maligned.
Fred F. Fielding

I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions
for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and
putting people on a path where they can succeed.
Linda Lingle

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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to
national security.
Randy Neugebauer

Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you
couldn't do for yourself.
Charisma Carpenter

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together,
billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
Rex Stout

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make
any big decisions.
Adam Rich

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in
the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should
realize this.
Helen Wills Moody

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we
fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they
need.
Jim Walton

I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and
he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been
very open. They trust my decisions.
Shannon Elizabeth

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are.
And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're
directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
Tony Goldwyn

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call
it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best
decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.
Linda Lingle

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use
decisions.
Elton Gallegly

You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency
in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as

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Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course
for our state.
Dave Heineman

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making

decisions.
Lara St. John

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

Karolina Kurkova

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As
I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel
empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
Tom Ridge

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to
make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

Samuel E. Morison

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced
by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
Nguyen Cao Ky

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any
concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas
art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.
Alexander Kluge

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final
deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the
work of many decisions.
Oscar Hammerstein II

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

Adam Osborne

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the
players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making
good decisions.
Hakeem Olajuwon

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the
lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions
about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his
cards.
Joshua Micah Marshall

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