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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, Decision, Acting

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

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• Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Patience, Spring, Decisions You Make

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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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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• How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

  Susan Griffin

  Decision, Shapes, Habit

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.15, Open Road Media

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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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• Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

  Ford Frick

  Anger, Decision, Sound

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

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Choices, Decision, Kind

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

  Tom Clancy

  Morning, Moving, People

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2389, Penguin

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• We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on the moon. OK, but no money to pay for it, nothing in the budget for it. And so the decision made at that time was to cancel the whole shuttle program to save money, which I think was very, very short sighted.

  John Glenn

  Moon, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You can let that rule your whole life or you can put it behind you and move on. Only a madman lets jealousy determine the course of his existence. Only a weak man blames others for his own errors.

  Juliet Marillier

  Moving, Men, Weak Man

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• The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that it’s a wonder anyone would want to continue reading.

  Richard Siken

  Reading, Long, Bird

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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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• There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Life And Death, Decision, Luck

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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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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