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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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"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."
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"I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously."
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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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"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
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"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
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"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
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"One right decision doth not a great president make."
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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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"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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"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."
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"If in doubt, move decisions up to the President."
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"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."
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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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"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."
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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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"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
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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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"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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"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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"A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
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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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"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."
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"Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions."
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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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"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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"Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions."
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"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."
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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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"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
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"Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice."
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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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"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."
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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 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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"For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation."
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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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"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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"It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options."
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"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
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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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"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."
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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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"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
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"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
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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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"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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