Decision Quotes - Page 36

• The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

  David Allen

  Reason, Force, Deadline

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from a major WarPac nuclear target until the Berlin Wall came down and the CW ended. Knowing you can die horribly at any moment because of decisions made by alien intelligences thousands of miles away who don't even know you exist - there's something Lovecraftian about that, isn't there?

  Charles Stross

  Children, Wall, War

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• The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.

  Emily Saliers

  Acting, Sweetest

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• Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

  Julius Nyerere

  People, Presidential, Important

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• It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, Negative, Done

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me.

  Halle Berry

  Dream, Life Changing, Teenager

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

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• Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Writing, Night

  "Interview: Guy Kawasaki on Reciprocity, Influencers, Ecosystems and the Art of Enchantment Read more at https://www.business2community.com/social-media/interview-guy-kawasaki-on-reciprocity-influencers-ecosystems-and-the-art-of-enchantment-019571". Interview with Ian Greenleigh, www.business2community.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Ideas, Feet, Choices

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

  Ina Garten

  Meals, Make Or Break, Planning

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.

  Ivan Illich

  Government, People, Experts

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• We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today

  Kelly McGonigal

  Different, Today, Tomorrow

  Kelly McGonigal (2012). “Maximum Willpower: How to master the new science of self-control”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you remember some scene out of the past, or worry about the future. Acting out new action patterns is no more difficult than deciding, then following through on tying your shoes in a new and different manner each morning, instead of continuing to tie them in your old habitual way, without thought or decision.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Morning, Past, Shoes

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.19, Penguin

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• Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.

  Elizabeth George

  Reflection, Priorities, Choices

  Elizabeth George (2012). “A Woman's Daily Walk with God”, p.42, Harvest House Publishers

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• Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

  Winston Graham

  Arbitrary, Unyielding, Youth

  Winston Graham (1961). “Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791”, Vintage

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• The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

  John C. Maxwell

  Discipline, Finishing, Helping

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• A good rule in organizational analysis is that no meeting of the minds is really reached until we talk of specific actions or decisions. We can talk of who is responsible for budgets, or inventory, or quality, but little is settled. It is only when we get down to the action words-measure, compute, prepare, check, endorse, recommend, approve-that we can make clear who is to do what.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Mind, Quality, Analysis

  Joseph M. Juran (1964). “Managerial breakthrough: a new concept of the manager's job”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

  Larry Siedentop

  Bridges, Class, Creating

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• You must stop editing--or you'll never finish anything. Begin with a time-management decision that indicates when the editing is to be finished: the deadline from which you construct your revisionary agenda. Ask yourself, 'How much editing time is this project worth?' Then allow yourself that time. If it's a 1,000-word newspaper article, it's worth editing for an hour or two. Allow yourself no more. Do all the editing you want, but decide that the article will go out at the end of the allotted time, in the form it then possesses.

  Kenneth Atchity

  Editing, Two, Agendas

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• The use of our military in combat should first require declaration of war. I have long called for reinstating the military draft, simply because I believe strongly that a national decision to go to war must also include a broad commitment to share its burdens. Whenever Congress decides to fund a war or other U.S. combat activities, it must provide a means to pay for it-then and there-not later. If we don't have the will to fully share the burdens of war, then we have no right to send our sons and daughters into harm's way.

  Charles Rangel

  Daughter, War, Military

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• I think we're in a new era where the advancing tide is towards human unity, where people all around the world want to come together. The United States is in a position where it can lead the way towards that and it can do it in practical ways by affirming the power of the United Nations so that the international process makes decisions on international security.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Thinking, People, Unity

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• If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

  Jim Highsmith

  Organization, Risk, Demand

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• Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information

  Seth Klarman

  Safety, Perfect, Risk

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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, Important

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• You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

  Ian Botham

  Player, Village, Tests

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• I suppose it is a bit of a date that we're having at the moment. As is usually the case you don't get married on a first date, you've got to go out a few times before you make any big decisions.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Firsts, Married, Moments

  "Nolberto Solano on trial at Colchester United". www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2009.

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