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• When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 25, 2014

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• Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

  Douglas Pagels

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  Harold Geneen

  Time, Management, Seeing

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• Between two stools one sits on the ground.

  Francois Rabelais

  Two, Stools

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 113-114, Gargantua, Book I, ch. II, 1922.

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• Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Business, Mistake, Optimistic

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• You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

  Jose Bergamin

  Made

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• Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

  Brian Tracy

  Choices, Accepting, Where You Are

  Brian Tracy (2010). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.28, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Children, Real

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• Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

  John Wooden

  Positivity, Failure To Act

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• Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Futility Of Life, Life Is, Irrational

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• Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

  Barber Conable

  Exhaustion, Exasperation

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• Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Uplifting, Mistake, Moving Forward

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• I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.

  Hulk Hogan

  Giving Up, Reality, Boots

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• What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

  Elia Kazan

  Business, Way, Penalties

  Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

  Karl Rove

  Regret, Fate, Hands

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• I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

  Prince William

  Thinking, People, Important

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• You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Change, Evil, Pebbles

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Light, Way

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Organization in Daily Life: An Essay”, p.11, [s.n.]

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• The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

  Robyn Davidson

  Travel, Firsts, Steps

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.254, A&C Black

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• Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Inspirational, Life, Taken

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• Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Lines, Being The Best, Danger

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• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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• If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 06, 2015

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• Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

  Barney Frank

  Power, Perspective, Engagement

  "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.

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• In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Dog, Heart

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