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  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

  Hugh Mackay

  Life Changing, Bigger, Seems

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• At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil

  Armstrong Williams

  Religious, People, Evil

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• Everyone wants to make good decisions. But how do you know when you are being guided by the Eck (Holy Spirit) or the mind. If guided by the Eck (Holy Spirit), you are more likely to change your mind when new information comes along. You're quicker to admit that an earlier decision based on sketchy information needs to change.

  Harold Klemp

  Mind, Needs, Want

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• My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Childhood, Actors

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• In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

  Bela Lugosi

  Usa, America, Acting

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• Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Responsibility, Thinking, Experience

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• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Mean, Cat

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mistake, Vision, Attention

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• The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strength, Peace, Powerful

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• Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

  David Gemmell

  Heart, Decisions You Make, Judgement

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• The two 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.

  Robyn Davidson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.254, A&C Black

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• Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.

  Darren Johnson

  Mistake, Struggle, Ego

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• Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, Men, Alternatives

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

  Herb Kohl

  People, Serious, Bankruptcy

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• People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

  Rollo May

  Life, People, Acorns

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

  Judd Nelson

  Hero, Happens, Decision Making

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• It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

  Corey Feldman

  Poor Decisions, Made, Screwed Up

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• I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

  William Hurt

  Balance, Scene, Standing Out

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case

  Ed Harris

  War, People, Soldier

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• I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

  John Lithgow

  Boyfriend, Fun, Dad

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• Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

  John Foster Dulles

  Years, Made, Courses

  Quoted in Henri Temuanka, Facing the Music (1973)

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• Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Political, Doe, Unjust

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• I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

  Bijou Phillips

  Writing, Gone, Made

  Interview with Bruce Labruce, www.indexmagazine.com. 2000.

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• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, Perception, Public Opinion

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2006.

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