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Decision-making Quotes
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
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"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."
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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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"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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"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years."
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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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"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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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
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"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."
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"Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."
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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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"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida."
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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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"I haven't always made the right decisions."
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"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."
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"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
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"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
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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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"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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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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"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
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"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."
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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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"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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"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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