Best Quotes About Decision (Top 100)
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I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
Shel Silverstein
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
Sigmund Freud
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The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.
Bernie Sanders
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There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.
Milan Kundera
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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
Maya Angelou
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Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body
Elizabeth Stone
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
Leonard Cohen
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
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Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Bob Marley
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In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.
Carlos Castaneda
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
Howard Zinn
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard
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I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone
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The government is merely a servant"merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
Mark Twain
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision
Peter F. Drucker
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If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
Shimon Peres
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Philip K. Dick
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It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Anthony Robbins
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
Bruce Lee
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Sigmund Freud
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Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
Jim Elliot
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Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
John Lennon
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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller
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Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?
Joe Paterno
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Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.
Alfie Kohn
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
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Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.
Bo Schembechler
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You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.
Ezra Taft Benson
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As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears—neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.
Scott Westerfeld
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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
Lewis Carroll
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
Carlos Santana
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
Adam Osborne
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Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell
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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
Mikhail Lermontov
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The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
Emil Ludwig
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I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.
Anita Shreve
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We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
Ingmar Bergman
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That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.
Harry Crews
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He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.
Robert K. Greenleaf
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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical
Trey Parker
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes
Karl Rahner
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Chinese Proverb
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Elias Canetti
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Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.
Tony Hawk
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Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
Ayn Rand
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter
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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
Bernard Law Montgomery
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To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) " this is the perpetual illusion of morality.
Giorgio Agamben
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In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
Dan Simmons
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A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Karl Kraus
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
Grace Jones
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We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.
Scott Jurek
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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
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The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.
Ann Druyan
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You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.
Dave Pelzer
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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
Edward Everett Hale
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Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!
Michael Franti
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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Tony Robbins
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When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.
Luis Figo
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
Georges Simenon
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield
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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Jack Kevorkian
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
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Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
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You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.
Brad Meltzer
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The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.
Anthony Robbins
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Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
James Clavell
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The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
Barry Sanders
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Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
John Doolittle
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Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.
John Foster Dulles
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
Ruth Benedict
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If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
Alfred P. Sloan
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In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
Bobby Scott
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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Anthony Robbins
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I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.
John Carpenter
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Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
Diane Ravitch
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There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
Paul Ricoeur
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The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.
Erich Segal
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Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
Charles de Gaulle
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What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.
Elizabeth Dole
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In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen
Even More Decision Quotes
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt
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History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
David Drake
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That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.
Richard Peck
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At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.
Albert Speer
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Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells
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If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
Mary McCarthy
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You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it
Barbara de Angelis
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If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
Leo Szilard
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Edwin Land
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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
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It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.
Bobby Charlton
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All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
Antonio Machado
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I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!
Julian Lennon
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Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.
Byron Nelson
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
Norbert Wiener
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Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
Dan Abrams
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My point is that true leaders...understand the possible consequences of their decisions, and are willing to bear that weight. The question is whether that's a step you're willing to take." -Carlist Rieekan
Timothy Zahn
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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Brian Tracy
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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
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Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.
Paul Rusesabagina
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Charles Horton Cooley
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder
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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
Fletcher Knebel
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
Adam Osborne
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Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
Donald Rumsfeld
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You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
Bob Riley
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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
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It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.
Ben Crenshaw
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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
Gay Hendricks
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One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.
Masanobu Fukuoka
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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
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Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
Bob Barker
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Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
Antony Jay
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There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.
Geoffrey Fisher
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Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.
Peggy Orenstein
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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
Donald Rumsfeld
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
Sam Rayburn
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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
Kathleen Raine
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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
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The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
Frank Barron
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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
Mencius
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Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20 percent to 50 percent of all purchasing decisions.
Jonah Berger
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Make every decision as if you owned the company.
Robert Townsend
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Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.
Carolyn Maloney
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The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore
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I made the decision. I'm accountable.
Janet Reno
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My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
Blanche Lincoln
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich
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Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
John Erskine
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Little choices determine habit;Habit carves and molds characterWhich makes the big decisions.
Elizabeth George
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
Harold Geneen
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If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
Kenneth Burke
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I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.
Debra Winger
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I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?
Margaret Culkin Banning
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I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.
Lakshmi Mittal
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Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Tom Robbins
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Sophocles
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
William James
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach
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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.
General George S. Patton
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Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
Pierre Corneille
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln
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How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.
Bill Hicks
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When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.
Fulton Oursler
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The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
Kay Boyle
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Harry S. Truman
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel
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Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Lillian Hellman
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Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno
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Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...
Harry S. Truman
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Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
Colin Powell
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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu
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Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
Denis Leary
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We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
Gary Collins