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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."
65
"During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions."
55
"The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans."
45
"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."
23
"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died."
22
"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."
20
"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
"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
15
"Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions."
15
"It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him."
14
"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."
14
"One right decision doth not a great president make."
14
"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."
14
"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
13
"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."
13
"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."
13
"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less."
12
"For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make."
12
"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."
12
"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."
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
"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."
11
"Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth."
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
"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."
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
"Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision."
10
"Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes."
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
"So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one."
9
"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."
9
"Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make."
9
"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."
9
"Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions."
9
"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."
8
"My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes."
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