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• Everybody makes bad decisions. I am sure I have made my share of them over 40 years of service. Or I have made good decisions and have been overruled. The real challenge, when you are overruled, is to remember who the boss is and don't take it personally.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Years, Decision

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists because we don't know the future, we don't know if the decision we make will lead to the best possible outcome. Cognitive science has taught us that relying on our gut or intuition often leads to bad decisions, particularly in cases where statistical information is available. Our guts and our brains didn't evolve to deal with probabilistic thinking.

  Daniel Levitin

  Thinking, Decisions We Make, Taught Us

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• I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Children, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

  Lance Armstrong

  Team, Decision, Imperfect

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.

  Sonia

  People, Decision, Can Do

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• Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

  Matt Salmon

  Should Have, Government, Decision

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• In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our priorities and if we are spending $300 billion on tax cuts for people who don't need them and weren't even asking for them, and we are leaving out health care which is crushing on people all across the country, then I think we have made a bad decision and I want to make sure we're not shortchanging our long term priorities.

  Barack Obama

  Crush, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Decision, Unlucky, Keep Going

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• If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

  Joyce Meyer

  Attitude, Mean, Decision

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• Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.

  Tim Ferriss

  Change, Hate, Pride

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• I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

  James Sinegal

  Business, Thinking, Views

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• It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Decision, Matter, Months

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• The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Art, Sex

  Erma Bombeck (1996). “Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• There's more to us than the moment we made a bad decision.

  Jenji Kohan

  Decision, Moments, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

  Jeph Jacques

  Wall, Real, College

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• A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.

  Peter Schutz

  Decision, Brilliant, Wells

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• Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

  Eddie Murphy

  Decision, Made, Has Beens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.

  Paul Arden

  Dream, Decision

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• I think people are screw-ups, and even our greatest heroes are deeply flawed human beings. People make bad decisions for all the wrong reasons, and then somehow they'll do the right thing, and then somehow they'll save somebody, or they'll be compassionate. Horrible people can do wonderful things, and wonderful people can do horrible things.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light on it. Chip is trying to be a better person and lead a better life. His methods are just super flawed.

  Will Arnett

  Black And White, Light, Decision

  "Will Arnett Is Ready To Confront His Own Demons" by Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side.

  Zendaya

  Dream, Play, Giving

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

  Apolo Ohno

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• John McCain from the very beginning has been unflinchingly loyal to Sarah Palin. He has never thrown her under the bus. He has never conceded it was a bad decision to pick her. He has never ever said a bad word against her.

  Rachel Maddow

  Decision, Loyal, Said

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

  Lou Holtz

  Country, Athlete, Player

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• I think one of the ways you avoid being angry is to avoid being angry at the people in power. They might do crappy things, and piss you off, and make bad decisions, but they shouldn't be hated simply because they're in power. And I thought it was important to humanize them if the book was going to be even-handed to all the different ways you encounter people at work.

  Joshua Ferris

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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