Decision Quotes - Page 27

• A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Football, Assistants, Beats

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• Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

  Robert Townsend

  Business, Mistake, Two

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Teamwork, Community, Collaboration

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• When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

  Nick Saban

  Athlete, School, Goal

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• You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Creating, Vision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

  Ursus Wehrli

  Long, Simplicity, Everyday

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• Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1504, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasure and revenge
  Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
  Of any true decision.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Voice, Ears

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8

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• Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale.

  Nancy Northup

  Law, Wade, Care

  "Federal appeals court upholds provisions of Texas abortion law" by Ariane de Vogue, www.cnn.com. June 9, 2015.

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• Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

  Donald Davidson

  Events, Action, Remember

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays”, p.207, Oxford University Press

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• Your courageous decision to believe in Him will bless you immeasurably and forever.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Believe, Forever, Courageous

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• Depression will always follow any decision to avoid a priority.

  Mike Murdock

  Priorities

  Mike Murdock (2012). “Wisdom For Winning”, p.225, Wisdom International Inc

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• In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control.

  Louise Hart

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”

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• Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Motivational, Success, Moving

  Mike Michalowicz (2008). “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll”, p.126, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

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• My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

  Werner Herzog

  Fiction, Way, Film

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2007.

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• North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.

  William J. Clinton

  Crazy, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's critical how we want to use these spy programs, these electronic capabilities, where we want to draw the line, and who should approve these programs, these decisions, and at what level, for engaging in operations that could lead us as a nation into a war.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Spy, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.

  Edward Snowden

  Military, Computer, Internet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Thinking, Together, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make.

  Michael Gungor

  Creativity, Artist, Order

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• Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Failing, Afraid To Fail

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• By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.

  Billy Graham

  Son, Simple, World

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken.

  Wilhelm II

  War, Distance, Ocean

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• I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are...
  because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a
  public.

  Chelsea Manning

  Truth, People, Society

  "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.

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