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• Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

  George S. Patton

  Fall, Fire, Decisions You Make

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• In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Choices, Decision, Important

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• He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view

  Marcus Sakey

  Views, Drawing, Choices

  Marcus Sakey (2012). “The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes”, p.148, Random House

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• Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.

  Bernard Baruch

  Strong, Money, New York

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• The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change

  Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

  Taken, Choices, Entrepreneur

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• I appreciate the decision made by Gov. Brewer to veto this legislation. I hope that we can now move on from this controversy and assure the American people that everyone is welcome to live, work and enjoy our beautiful State of Arizona.

  John McCain

  Beautiful, Moving, Gay

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• I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Organization, Decision

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• The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress

  Irving Janis

  Powerful, Stress, Responsibility

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• I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn’t. I didn’t care. I had enough problems of my own.

  Graeme Simsion

  Selfish, Character, Emotional

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• Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren’t planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Decision, Live In The Moment, Sometimes

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• I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

  Joss Whedon

  Movie, Thinking, Decision

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• I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

  Pope Francis

  Thought Provoking, Decision, Waiting

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.22, A&C Black

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• You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Wise, Love You

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• Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Doctors, Decision

  "Health care returns as an issue" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. October 4, 1999.

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• A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.

  Tony Robbins

  Fear, Decision, Made

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• Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.

  Tim Ferriss

  Change, Hate, Pride

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• I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

  Bronwyn Bishop

  Leadership, Two, People

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• Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.

  Carl Cohen

  Government, Bored, People

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• Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.

  Nora Roberts

  Decision, Made

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.207, Penguin

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• In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Years, Decision

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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, Decision

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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 function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Law, Decision

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• Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?

  Steven Erikson

  Decision, Cost, World

  "Toll the Hounds". Book by Steven Erikson, 2008.

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• In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is not simply a matter of seat belts, safe toys, safe air, water and food, additive-free baby foods, or improved television programming. These are all important issues, but to stop here is to forget that today's children will soon be adults. Technological decisions made today will determine, perhaps irrevocably, the kind of physical and social world we bequeath them and the kind of people they become.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Baby, Children, Fate

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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