Decision Quotes - Page 39

• My urge, when I go to the store, is to buy everything. And it's the same when I'm composing. My first instinct is basically to bring the whole store home, and not make a decision about how things play out.

  Nico Muhly

  Home, Play, Firsts

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of.

  Nico Muhly

  Jobs, Opposites, Play

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me.

  Dana Perino

  Careers, Married, Leap

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one's will - that is, making one's own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, [since] central governments are seated in capitals.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Moving, Mean, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When you know that somebody lost their loved one as a result of a decision that I made, that's a tough moment. If you're a faithful person you try to empathize with the suffering that that person is going through.

  George W. Bush

  Faithful, Suffering, Trying

  Interview, www.politico.com. May 13, 2008.

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• The Oval Office is a place where there's been, obviously, a lot of amazing experiences over a seven-and-a-half year period. My presidency is one where I've had to make some very tough decisions. I guess some presidencies are kind of - were real smooth, there were no real big issues. Well, that's not the way mine is.

  George W. Bush

  Real, Years, Issues

  Interview, www.politico.com. May 13, 2008.

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• With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Athlete, Simple, Endurance

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.

  Jami Floyd

  Hair, Political, Culture

  "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• I've always been curious what the negotiation is because obviously there's certain movies that every film wants a trailer on, like Star Wars, and I don't know how Disney makes the decisions as to what it does and doesn't put on there. I'm assuming that whatever movies are the same studio as the film get first priority, but then everybody else is fighting for the remaining spots.

  Simon Kinberg

  Stars, War, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• Everybody has a personal decision to make but hopefully my actions speak louder than words.

  Luke Zeller

  Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Hopefully, Action

  "A conversation with Phoenix Suns center Luke Zeller". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• All models experience resistance during their modeling careers; the point is just to remain yourself and make meaningful and genuine decisions.

  Maria Borges

  Meaningful, Careers, Resistance

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm joking, I'm joking. Best decision I ever made.

  Joe Biden

  Made

  "Joe Biden gets colorful on being a VP - and it rhymes with glitch" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2014.

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• We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Education, Taken, Roof

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• For me it's much more like a little kid rebelling. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life. I come from the business side and Mark comes from the creative side, but every time a decision came up about Creep it was two emails, and we agreed. I've not had that ever with someone on the creative or the business side.

  Jason Blum

  Kids, Two, Opposites

  Source: deadline.com

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• The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

  Steve Blank

  Gains, Advantage, Blank

  Steve Blank, Bob Dorf (2012). “The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company”, p.115, BookBaby

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• The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. ... In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don't do it that way in America.

  Ray LaHood

  Country, Successful, America

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• In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

  Jack White

  Song, Real, Character

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• What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.

  Philip Agee

  Agency, President, Doe

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• The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

  Raymond Williams

  Real, Choices, Lines

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• Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, People, Important

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Frontiers of Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.

  Thomas Sowell

  Keys, Needs, Stories

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• I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  People, Lines, Film

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• A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and challenging circumstances.

  Richard G. Scott

  Challenges, Confusing, Principles

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• It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

  Wilhelm II

  Army, Soldier, Together

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