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Decisions Quotes


"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."


"No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know."


"Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment."


"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."


"A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them."


"Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions."


"We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions."


"There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made."


"I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions."


"To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new."


"But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart."


"You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made."


"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past."


"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems."


"It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions."


"And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts."


"Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?"


"Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment."


"The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial."



"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."


"Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems."


"Nine times out of ten, failure is resorting to Plan B when Plan A gets too risky, too costly, or too difficult. That's why most people are living their Plan B. They didn't burn the ships. Plan A people don't have a Plan B...There are moments in life when we need to burn the ships to our past. We do so by making a defining decision that will eliminate the possibility of sailing back to the old world we left behind. You burn the ships named Past Failure and Past Success. You burn the ship named Bad Habit. You burn the ship named Regret. You burn the ship named Guilt. You burn the ship named My Old Way of Life."
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