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Decision-making Quotes
"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
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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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"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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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"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."
7
"Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington."
7
"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
7
"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."
7
"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
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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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"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
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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 don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle."
7
"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."
7
"It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box."
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"Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly."
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"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."
7
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that."
6
"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."
6
"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
6
"I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously."
6
"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."
6
"I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction."
6
"A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
6
"Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"If in doubt, move decisions up to the President."
6
"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
6
"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."
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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's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."
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"A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions."
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"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
6
"The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this."
6
"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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