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Decision-making Quotes
"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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"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris."
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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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"Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to."
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"I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously."
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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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"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
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"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."
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"The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction."
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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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"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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"A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee."
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"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."
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"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
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"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
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"Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes."
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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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"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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"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."
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"I haven't always made the right decisions."
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"It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options."
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"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."
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"The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers."
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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
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"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida."
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"There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision."
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"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
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"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."
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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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"In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em."
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"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."
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"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
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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."
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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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"It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box."
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"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
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"Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents."
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"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."
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"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."
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