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Decision-making Quotes
"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."
"I haven't always made the right decisions."
"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died."
"We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia."
"Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions."
"As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors."
"It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options."
"I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle."
"Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice."
"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris."
"A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials."
"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years."
"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."
"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"
"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."
"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."
"It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box."
"Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly."
"The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."
"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."
"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less."
"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
"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."
"The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers."
"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."
"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."
"Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs."
"A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee."
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
"That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor."
"Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision."
"One right decision doth not a great president make."
"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs."
"A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions."
"The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking."
"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
"It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors."
"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
"Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to."
"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."
"Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy."
"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."
"My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits."
"For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make."
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