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Decision-making Quotes
"Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included."
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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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"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida."
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"Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth."
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"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
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"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."
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"I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision."
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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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"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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"A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
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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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"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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"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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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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"And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures."
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"I haven't always made the right decisions."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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"A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials."
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"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years."
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"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"
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"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."
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"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."
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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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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
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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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"The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking."
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"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
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"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."
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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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"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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"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."
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"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."
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"Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision."
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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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"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that."
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"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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"In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented."
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"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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