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• If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Self, People

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• What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Decisions We Make, Important, Our Time

  "Ray Kurzweil Says We’re Going to Live Forever". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.

  Meg Cabot

  Dad, Decision, Important

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Heaven Sent”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Law, Decision

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• Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

  Jeff Bezos

  Decision, Important, Energy

  "I Asked Jeff Bezos The Tough Questions - No Profits, The Book Controversies, The Phone Flop - And He Showed Why Amazon Is Such A Huge Success". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2014.

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• Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

  Pepper Schwartz

  Baby, Husband, Children

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• When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ.

  Paul V. Johnson

  Choices, Decision, Important

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• [People] are tired of looking at what happens, they are tired of us having our... let's say finest and brightest not being involved in the most important decisions, and being someplace else.

  Donald Trump

  Tired, People, Decision

  Source: www.economist.com

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• When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

  Laura Poitras

  Decision, Secret, Important

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• I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be indispensable when I am writing. ... Books make me laugh, cry, and think. They give me insight into history, and into the lives of people in other cultures. They help me make important decisions, and they provide endless entertainment. Hooray for libraries!

  Peg Kehret

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

  David Mixner

  Doctors, People, Decision

  "Why The HIV/AIDS Community Should Care About the New Medicare Panel" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

  Peter Drucker

  Mean, Decision, Important

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.95, Routledge

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• I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

  Mary Harron

  Bored, Decision, Important

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

  Philip Bobbitt

  Taken, Men, Decision

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• Sometimes trust takes time. We all love to be in control, but when you start to give some of that up, it's freeing. Start with some of the little things. Give those things up to the Lord. Ultimately the most important decision you can make is giving your life over to Christ and trusting Him with it. That's an amazing thing.

  Mike Fisher

  Trusting Him, Giving, Decision

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Decision, Important, Delay

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• All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

  Rex Stout

  Thinking, Decision, Important

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I". Life Magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision a person can ever make. I invited Jesus Christ to be Lord of my life and made a commitment to follow Him. God offers each of us the free gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus by "confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead" (Romans 10:9). It is a wonderful and peaceful feeling to serve a God who loves me and cares about every detail of my life.

  R.A. Dickey

  Jesus, Believe, Commitment

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• None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Decision, Important

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• The interesting thing is that there are so few important decisions. You don't have to go in the "right" direction. You don't have to enter the "right" business. What you have to do is have made a decision as to what you're going to do and then you just have to figure out how to succeed at it.

  Ken Oshman

  Business, Justice, Interesting

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• The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Believe, Inspiration

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• And fathers, . . . listen to [your returned missionary sons], and connect with them in regular, focused conversation. Talk with them in depth about their feelings and desires. Pray with them and give them blessings as they face the important decisions in their future.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Father, Son, Blessing

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• The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got, because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners.

  George Carlin

  Education, Country, Real

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

  Herodotus

  Drunk, Decision, House

  Herodotus (2007). “Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants”, p.47, Penguin UK

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