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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."
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"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."
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"During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions."
61
"The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans."
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"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
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"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."
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"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died."
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"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
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"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."
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"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."
20
"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
17
"It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him."
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"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."
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"Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions."
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"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."
14
"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."
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"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."
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"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less."
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"One right decision doth not a great president make."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."
13
"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."
12
"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."
12
"For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make."
12
"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."
11
"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."
11
"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."
11
"What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN."
11
"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."
11
"I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive."
11
"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."
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"So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one."
10
"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."
10
"Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth."
10
"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."
10
"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."
10
"I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me."
10
"Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it."
10
"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
10
"Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision."
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"Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes."
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"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
10
"In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em."
10
"That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law."
10
"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."
10
"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs."
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