Decision Quotes - Page 32

• If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.

  Avi Lewis

  Fighting, Hunting, Animal

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

  David Allen

  Reason, Force, Deadline

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• There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

  David Allen

  Doe, May, Littles

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• The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

  Ina Garten

  Meals, Make Or Break, Planning

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I'm pretty laidback as a dad anyway. I just trust her so much. She has a great head on her shoulders and she makes pretty good decisions most of the time. She even has enough common sense that if she makes a bad one she makes adjustments and knows that's what life is. It's a day-by-day, step-by-step journey through life, as she says in the movie.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Dad, Journey, Common Sense

  "Hannah Montana: The Movie - Billy Ray Cyrus interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.

  Ivan Illich

  Government, People, Experts

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• We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today

  Kelly McGonigal

  Different, Today, Tomorrow

  Kelly McGonigal (2012). “Maximum Willpower: How to master the new science of self-control”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.

  Tom Landry

  Firsts, Second Best, Pursued

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• The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fighting, Soul, Enemy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you remember some scene out of the past, or worry about the future. Acting out new action patterns is no more difficult than deciding, then following through on tying your shoes in a new and different manner each morning, instead of continuing to tie them in your old habitual way, without thought or decision.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Morning, Past, Shoes

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.19, Penguin

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• The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Decisions We Make, Choices, Add

  Harold S. Kushner (2003). “Living a Life that Matters”, p.150, Anchor

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• You make the decision with vision and god makes the provision.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Vision, Provision

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• You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Thinking, Thinker, Ifs

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• Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

  Winston Graham

  Arbitrary, Unyielding, Youth

  Winston Graham (1961). “Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791”, Vintage

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• The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

  John C. Maxwell

  Discipline, Finishing, Helping

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• "The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Challenges, Weakness

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• A good rule in organizational analysis is that no meeting of the minds is really reached until we talk of specific actions or decisions. We can talk of who is responsible for budgets, or inventory, or quality, but little is settled. It is only when we get down to the action words-measure, compute, prepare, check, endorse, recommend, approve-that we can make clear who is to do what.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Mind, Quality, Analysis

  Joseph M. Juran (1964). “Managerial breakthrough: a new concept of the manager's job”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

  Larry Siedentop

  Bridges, Class, Creating

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• Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

  Julius Nyerere

  People, Presidential, Important

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• The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.

  Emily Saliers

  Acting, Sweetest

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• Using the ‘military decision-making process’ is extremely valuable when making policy decisions.

  Joe Heck

  Military, Process, Valuable

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• The use of our military in combat should first require declaration of war. I have long called for reinstating the military draft, simply because I believe strongly that a national decision to go to war must also include a broad commitment to share its burdens. Whenever Congress decides to fund a war or other U.S. combat activities, it must provide a means to pay for it-then and there-not later. If we don't have the will to fully share the burdens of war, then we have no right to send our sons and daughters into harm's way.

  Charles Rangel

  Daughter, War, Military

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• While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.

  Joe Heck

  War, Mean, Men

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• I think we're in a new era where the advancing tide is towards human unity, where people all around the world want to come together. The United States is in a position where it can lead the way towards that and it can do it in practical ways by affirming the power of the United Nations so that the international process makes decisions on international security.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Thinking, People, Unity

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• If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

  Jim Highsmith

  Organization, Risk, Demand

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