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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. ~LordMansfield

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 smilingon 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 multifariousfactors, 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 andevery 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 thecrossroads. ~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 Robbinsquotes (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” ChineseProverbs quotes

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

“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.” Sophocles quotes (One of classical Athens' three greattragic 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.” GeneralGeorge 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; andthe 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 Collinsquotes

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darknessof 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 Proustquotes (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 someonedifferent?”

“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 thembecause 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 heardand 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 allresponsibility and care about the outcome” William James quotes (American Philosopher andPsychologist, 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 greatdecision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes ita 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 (Interviewwith the Vampire), b.1982)

“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it ” Harry STruman 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 ((FrancisCharles 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 bornAmerican Theologian and Philosopher , whose discussions of God and faith illuminated andbound 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 gowalking around outside your body.” Elizabeth Stone quotes

“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that areout of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with itlonger 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'HareMcCormick quotes (American journalist, 1882-1954)

“There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices anddecisions-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 dreamscome 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 owesomething to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.” Elie Wieselquotes (Romanian born American Writer . Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986. b.1928)

“Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I knowthat 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 isthe vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeplyembedded 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 themost 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 politiciansor 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 Politicalactivist, 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 bevery stubborn in his decisions. When he decides something, he definitely goes forward.” EmmaBonino 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. NapoleonBonaparte

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 peoplewalk 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. AnthonyRobbins

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ChineseProverbThe 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 todo.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 veryend, 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 tobe 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 makedecisions, 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 areout of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with itlonger 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, youhaven'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 inbed 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 myposition."Charles Swindoll 

"We all possess something called "intuition". It's an inner "knowing' which, when paid attentionto, 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 newstrategies."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 timeoff and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosingwhich 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, todetermine 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 allowyourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, makingthe first decision."Robyn Davidson

"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most isgetting 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; andthe procedure , the process is its own reward."

 Amelia Earhart 

"A team based environment demands that you make responsible decisions; it requires you totake 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 wouldhave. When you are confronted with a decision, for an instant, foresee the final day and handleit 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 thewrong 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 andgo 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 youwant. Ben Stein

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not havemerit. 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 wherehe 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 thingas 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 knownsilently. 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 themoment... 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 activityand maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Paul J. Meyer

Decision quotes - the importance of decisionmaking"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 determinedestiny. "

Frederick Speakman

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

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 knownsilently."

 Agnes de Mille

 

Decision quotes - indecisionAs 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 youcan 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 fallvictim 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 thathe 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 reasonAnd 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 thisworld were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who daredto 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 importantdecisions 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 theend, 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 aloss.

Noam Chomsky 

Decision quotations - careerDecision quotes involving work and careers that suggest aligning who you are with

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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. Youdon't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never besuccessful 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. Tomap 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, hewill 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 areout of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with itlonger 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 todo."

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Elbert Hubbard 

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

Sergio Bambaren

"I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning pointwas when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achievesuccess. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most peoplenever 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 anddetermination.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 dois 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 iscontained 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 thatonly 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 theanswer 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, aretemperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. James Callaghan

Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you'regoing to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world willbend 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 itundone.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 gettingready 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 suddenlybecomes 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 themhave 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 anytopic, 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 manypeople 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 withoutdebating 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 hedoes, he is wasting water. African Proverb

Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced onthem.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 tomake 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 owndeliberate decisions.Abraham Lincoln 

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible orimpossible to make.

Abraham Lincoln 

 The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flowof risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtainingcapital, 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 upwholly 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 mattersmost 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 ourconditions, 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 jobsecurity 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 makedecisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerousmistake.Peter Drucker 

 The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will haveconsequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, theworld 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 lowtime. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worstmoods. 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 moveinto action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreamscome true.Robert H. Schuller 

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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, maylegally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all thedecisions 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 nota part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to wherewe 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 alwayscame 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 thanby 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 andinsights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not whatdecisions 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'smuch 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 andmajority decisions but by iron and blood.

Otto von Bismarck 

 There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will sendothers 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 behindlocked doors.

 Jimmy Carter 

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgementssimpler 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 baddecisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look upto is important to me.

 Justin Bieber 

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counselof your fears.

 Thomas S. Monson 

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

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

 Thabo Mbeki 

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect onpeople, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drughas 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 theinformation flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently orpersuasively 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 successfullyimplemented.Donald Rumsfeld 

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

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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 andtone.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 notconnected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothingabout that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what theythink is right.Steve Harvey 

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be makinghealth 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 theseprograms but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shapingthe programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of theprevious supporters reconsidered.Barney Frank 

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policyimplications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives thatresult from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based ondecisions they themselves take.Barney Frank 

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

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makersare 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 thosedecisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm'sway.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 goodfeeling 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 thedecisions that you make.Puff Daddy 

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with theirbodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would maketotally 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 beingliberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what ittakes to win.Maxine Waters 

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

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to dogood work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, andleaders 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 nearlyinvisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.Margaret J. Wheatley 

 Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions aremade based on power rather than intelligence.Margaret J. Wheatley 

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

 John Le Carre 

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut backwithout damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew tocut 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'sterribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don'tlike.Sandra Day O'Connor 

 Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alonewill 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 anddecisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justicethan we do.Wendell Berry 

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don'ttell 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 withPaul, 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 verymuch away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what'sbeen changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as thecharacter.Nicole Kidman 

 The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins toregard 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, aretemperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

 James Callaghan 

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

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

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

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

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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 theybecome 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. Sothe 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 popularparticipation 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 youchoose 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; andpeople 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 leavethe 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 suchproblems.

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 decisionsat 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 thestates 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 noperspective 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 nextwords 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 dowith 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 cometogether, 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 finaldeadline, 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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