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• We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right

  John Banham

  Mean, Decision, Danger

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• I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Decision, Helping, Individual

  "Alonzo Mourning: The Edge of Sports Interview". Interview with Dave Zirin, bleacherreport.com. January 27, 2009.

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• The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

  Joe Biden

  Running, Regret, Decision

  "Full video and transcript: Rachel Maddow interviews Vice President Joe Biden". Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

  Thinking, Decision, Answers

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• Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Decision, Sometimes

  Robin Sharma (2010). “The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.

  Cathy Freeman

  Motivational, Mistake, Athlete

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• When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Decision, Littles, Feels

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true.

  Rupert Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Taken

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• I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Choices, Abortion

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• I do know that if you can name certain things and understand them, it allows you to make better choices. Unfortunately, there's so much misinformation that towers over a person's head, it's really difficult to make the right decisions. Consequently, we just go along because it's way too hard to sift through the information.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Names, Choices, Decision

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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• I know I've made the right decision when I've followed my heart.

  Diane Lane

  Heart, Decision, Made

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• I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Thinking, Decision, Criticism

  "Sandra Day O'Connor Explores Supreme Court History, Inner Workings". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 3, 2013.

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• Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Decision, Okay, Turns

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• I would say, being a parent is what makes me vulnerable. Loving someone so much it scares you. Knowing you'd do anything for them and then realizing there will come a time when you have to loosen the reins and let them figure it out on their own, and then trusting that you/they are making the right decisions.

  Beth Riesgraf

  Knowing, Loving Someone, Decision

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• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  Vic Snyder

  Country, Journey, Iraq

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• Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Taken, Decision, Would Be

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• I haven't always made the right decisions.

  George Steinbrenner

  Decision, Made, Havens

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• One right decision doth not a great president make.

  Herman Cain

  Decision, President, Great Presidents

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• It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

  Ted Alexandro

  Ideas, Decision, Arriving

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

  Saul Alinsky

  Opportunity, Destiny, People

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• I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

  Lee Child

  Cousin, Drama, Decision

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• Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.

  Meg Cabot

  Dad, Decision, Important

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Heaven Sent”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Thinking, Decision, Matter

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• There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Giving, Decision, Advice

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.

  Tim Bowler

  Decision, Doing Nothing, Scared

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