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Decision-making Quotes
"Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man."
83
"During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions."
43
"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."
37
"The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans."
32
"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
18
"Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know."
17
"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."
12
"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."
10
"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died."
7
"As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors."
6
"One right decision doth not a great president make."
6
"When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest."
6
"Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions."
6
"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."
5
"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."
5
"Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision."
4
"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."
4
"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
4
"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."
4
"For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make."
4
"In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em."
4
"The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country."
4
"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
3
"So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one."
3
"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
3
"My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste."
3
"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."
3
"There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality."
3
"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."
3
"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."
3
"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."
3
"It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him."
3
"Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision."
3
"There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."
3
"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."
3
"Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly."
3
"No more waking up at noon, updating FC for an hour, and spending the rest of the day cashing FC checks and watching porn? It was a hard decision, but, like, I'm a man now."
3
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
3
"For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time."
3
"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."
3
"It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box."
3
"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."
3
"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less."
3
"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
3
"The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that."
2
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
2
"Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents."
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