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Decision-making Quotes
"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
"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."
"The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that."
"I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction."
"You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make."
"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."
"It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him."
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
"My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes."
"I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me."
"Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions."
"Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision."
"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."
"Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution."
"I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision."
"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."
"Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it."
"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."
"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."
"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
"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."
"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
"President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security."
"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."
"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
"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."
"I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need."
"What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN."
"Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly."
"It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen."
"The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this."
"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
"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."
"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
"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."
"Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made."
"We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report."
"If in doubt, move decisions up to the President."
"Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision."
"No more waking up at noon, updating FC for an hour, and spending the rest of the day cashing FC checks and watching porn? It was a hard decision, but, like, I'm a man now."
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
"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."
"For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time."
"I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive."
"Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes."
"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
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