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Decision-making Quotes



"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."


"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."


"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."


"It is only in our decisions that we are important."


"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."


"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."


"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."


"Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy."


"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."


"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."


"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."


"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."


"Hindsight is always easier than the dreadful moment of decision."


"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."



"In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing."
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