Decision Quotes - Page 27

• There are distractions, all around. There's so much media, for a young kid to battle against, to get to something soulful. You have to make a decision, on your own, what you can take from these people, if you can dig deeper. It's nice to be able to let people dig deeper.

  Jack White

  Nice, Kids, Media

  Source: collider.com

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• Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Responsibility, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Levels, Want, Life Is

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know what China looked like before he took over, and so in my own mind, I don't think of Deng Xiaoping as an oppressor. I think of somebody who, faced with that crisis, made a very painful and decision with which I cannot agree. But I also think of him as a great reformer.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Years, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

  Nicholson Baker

  Lying, Writing, Letters

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Book, Thinking, Hair

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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• You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

  Glen Hansard

  Funny Things, Intellectual, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "The Tavis Smiley SHow", www.pbs.org. March 12, 2013.

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• I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song]. One of the songs that I considered talking about was "Manhattan," because it was chronicling the end of a long relationship that was part of the reason why I moved from Los Angeles to New York, which was such a life-changing decision. I don't regret that it's not in there, but that's one that I considered diving into, and I have little piecemeal snippets of writing about that floating around

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, New York, Regret

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Heart

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• People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Past

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.62, Moody Publishers

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• He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Creativity, Chance, Problem Solving

  "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections". Book by George Savile, 1750.

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• In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

  Robert Heller

  Teamwork, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

  Thomas Watson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Educational

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• What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Heart, Thinking

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• "If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."

  Thomas Watson

  Loyalty, Art, Hero

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• If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

  Martha Beck

  Uncomfortable Feeling, People, Feelings

  "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.

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• Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Real, Giving

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• The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.

  Michael Gerber

  Opportunity, People, Entrepreneur

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• A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Football, Assistants, Beats

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• There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.

  William Morris

  Thinking, Years, Challenges

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• And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

  Kevin Kelly

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

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• Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

  Robert Townsend

  Business, Mistake, Two

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Teamwork, Community, Collaboration

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