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Decision-making Quotes
"Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man."
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"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."
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"Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know."
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"During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions."
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"The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans."
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"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
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"I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously."
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"A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
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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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"The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that."
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that."
"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs."
"In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented."
"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
"Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents."
"So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one."
"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."
"Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision."
"Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included."
"Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend."
"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."
"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida."
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
"Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth."
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
"There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process."
"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
"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."
"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."
"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."
"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
"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."
"And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions."
"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
"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."
"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."
"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."
"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
"You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."
"Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington."
"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."
"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
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