Decision Quotes - Page 4

• Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.

  Ali Vincent

  Life Changing, Everyday, Bigs

  Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.127, Rodale

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• The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Critical Decisions

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• You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

  Mark Batterson

  Different, Defining, Different Life

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• Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

  Richard Livingstone

  Alternatives, Danger, Puzzled

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• Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Limits, Logic

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• Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

  Herman Kahn

  Mistake, Simple, Perspective

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.208, Lexington Books

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• The soul of dispatch is decision.

  William Hazlitt

  Soul

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.141

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• Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, World, Materials

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• We made too many wrong mistakes.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Mistake

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.36, Workman Publishing

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• It is only in our decisions that we are important.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Important

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Funny, Life, Success

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Team, Lost, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

  Brian Eno

  Hands, Ideas, Brain

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• The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

  Edwin Meese

  Judgment, Accepting, Appeals

  United States. Dept. of Justice, Edwin Meese (1989). “Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988”

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• Belief fuels our decisions - even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Fuel, Belief, Transcendentalism

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.147, Conari Press

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• Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Evil, Engagement, Mankind

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• Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Agents, Illusion

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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• Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Process

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• It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Doors, Political, Special

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• Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Workout, Single Life, Our Lives

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.91, Conari Press

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• Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Knowing, Issues, Forever

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• Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Used

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Evil, Choices, Prudence

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.210

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• My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Principles, Decision Making, Right Decision

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• We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

  Bill W.

  Inspirational, Recovery, Choices

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