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• Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Sarcastic, Yield

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.157

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• We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Decisions You Make, Self

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

  Wendell Phillips

  Games, Play, Common Sense

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• Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

  James C. Collins

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  "Turn on, tune in - or drown in a sea of mediocrity" by Simon Caulkin, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

  John Cale

  Attitude, Decisions You Make, Smart Choices

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• Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

  Martin McGuinness

  Government, Giving, British

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• When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

  Bob Woodward

  Essence, Political, President

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• The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Tree, Problem, Deliberation

  "Software Pioneers: Contributions to Software Engineering: Programme Development by Stepwise Refinement". Book edited by Manfred Broy and‎ Ernst Denert, June 27, 2002.

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• Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Decisions You Make, Giving, Decisions Made

  "A Book About Lawyers", Vol. 1, by John Cordy Jeaffreson, 1867.

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• It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Strong, Men, Issues

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• Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Determination, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 27, 2014

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• Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Wise, Information Knowledge

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Acting, Paper

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.

  Clayton Christensen

  Decisions You Make, Blood, Sweat

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• You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.

  George S. Patton

  One Thing, Decided

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• When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

  Harry S. Truman

  Bucks, Motto, Made

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• Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Want, Think And Grow Rich, Knows

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.110, Penguin

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• Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Hard Work, Decisions We Make, Choices

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 13, 2012

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• If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

  Mary McCarthy

  Bad Decision, Realistic, Ifs

  On the Contrary "The American Realist Playwrights" (1961)

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• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  A. C. Benson

  Business, Mean, Mind

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• Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Thinking, Giving, Justice

  Advice to a newly appointed colonial governor ignorant in the law, in John Lord Campbell 'The Lives of the Chief Justices of England' (1849) vol. 2, ch. 40

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• This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Life, Procrastination, Humor

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• Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, September 11th

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Choices, Kind, Made

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .

  George Eliot

  Men, Age, Alternatives

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