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Decision-making Quotes
"Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision."
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"Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions."
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"The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."
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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
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"Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs."
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"One right decision doth not a great president make."
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"So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one."
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"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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"If in doubt, move decisions up to the President."
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"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."
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"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."
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"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."
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"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that."
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"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."
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"I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction."
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"Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision."
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"A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
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"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
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"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."
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"Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution."
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"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."
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"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
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"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."
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"The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that."
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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."
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"President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security."
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"What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN."
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"My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it."
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"We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report."
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"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."
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"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris."
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"Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
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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."
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"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
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"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
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"A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee."
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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."
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"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs."
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"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."
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"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."
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
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