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Decision-making Quotes
"Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy."
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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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"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
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"A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence."
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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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"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
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"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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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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"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
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"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."
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"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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"Hindsight is always easier than the dreadful moment of decision."
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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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"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."
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"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."
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