Decision Quotes - Page 17

• As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.

  Hetty King

  Used, Eldest, Unpopular Decisions

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• Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Failing, Afraid To Fail

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• By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.

  Billy Graham

  Son, Simple, World

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

  John C. Maxwell

  Critical Decisions, Needs, Areas

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader with Workbook: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.85, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

  Ursus Wehrli

  Long, Simplicity, Everyday

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• The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.

  Lewis Schiff

  Writing, Top Down, Discipline

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• Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1504, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasure and revenge
  Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
  Of any true decision.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Voice, Ears

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8

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• Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Important, Made

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• Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

  Mason Cooley

  Inevitable, Absent Minded, Seems

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• Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain.

  Deepak Chopra

  Intuition, Answers, Calm

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 16, 2011

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• When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Japan, Games, Looks

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• Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,--who is invariably the devil,--and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,--who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Angel, Men, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.718, Modern Library

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• The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Principles, Different, Use

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• I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

  Indra Nooyi

  Family, Leadership, Mom

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• My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Peace, Reading

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• Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

  Ehud Olmert

  Leadership, Trying, Tough

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• The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.

  Alice Rivlin

  Dream, Mean, Hard Work

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• Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken.

  Wilhelm II

  War, Distance, Ocean

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• The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be established-where the exploding changes in health care that are now underway will be addressed.

  Arthur Caplan

  Challenges, Boards, Body

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• As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.

  Kristen Stewart

  Long, People, Feel Good

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• The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Sky, Voice

  "Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen 244 U.S. 205, 222". Dissenting opinion, May 21, 1917.

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• [There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Men, Study, Economics

  "Contemporary Economic Research" by Kenneth Boulding in "Trends in Social Science" edited by Donald P. Ray (pp. 9-26), 1958.

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• The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Moving, World, Significant

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• The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Past, Bridges, Gaps

  Foreword of "The image of the future" by Fred Polak, (p. V), 1972.

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