Decision Quotes - Page 34

• We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in to what the original creator did. And in our case "open" also means distributed decision making.

  Mitchell Baker

  Mean, Cases, Source

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership, not solely on employment or a title or a business plan. Technical colleagues will define "open" as "open standards," "interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match - all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next.

  Mitchell Baker

  Cutting, Views, Understanding

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Thinking, People, Support

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.

  Sacha Gervasi

  Book, Talking, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I think that environmentalists have been terribly misunderstood over the years. I believe that anyone that cares about the earth is an environmentalist. People that make a decision to not throw garbage out on the street because they consider the possible impacts. That's environmentalism in its most basic form.

  Jerome Ringo

  Believe, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I won't go back on my decision. I'm not afraid of prison, but there are even worse dangers.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Prison, Danger, Not Afraid

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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, Arriving, Moments

  "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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• Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  People, Matter, Should

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.

  Daniel Suarez

  Kids, Opportunity, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many people expect, just as they did then, "those at the top" to make all their decisions for them: Please get us work, and take care of our rent. These people vote for those who shout the loudest and deliver promises that are ultimately impossible to fulfill.

  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

  People, Promise, Care

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I trust voters. Voters decide on whatever basis they think is important to them. I just want them to have a full range of information to make that decision.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Important, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• That's precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions - the protection of endangeres species is not some luxury item by Gucci or Hermès, for people who have no problems.

  Klaus Topfer

  Luxury, People, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, President, Splits

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I believe that you have to withstand whatever problems come your way. You have to make the decisions that are best for you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Way, Problem

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Important, Right Decision

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm not afraid to make decisions. One of my friends said... we were talking about movies. It's really just a series of decisions you make. They said, "Tim Miller: frequently wrong, but never in doubt." I don't know that I'm making the right ones, but I'm not afraid to make them. That keeps the train moving forward.

  Timothy Miller

  Moving, Decisions You Make, Talking

  "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.

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• Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.

  Frans de Waal

  Mother, Fate, Men

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• Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along by another person, I could be a receiver. I could be the agent of the overall scheme, but I didn't want to be the agent of the particular action. I could make the ultimate decision that my space is going to change now, but I don't know where it's going to go.

  Vito Acconci

  Hands, Space, Agents

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be indispensable when I am writing. ... Books make me laugh, cry, and think. They give me insight into history, and into the lives of people in other cultures. They help me make important decisions, and they provide endless entertainment. Hooray for libraries!

  Peg Kehret

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Goes On, Action, Unconscious

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• For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

  David Mixner

  Doctors, People, Important

  "Why The HIV/AIDS Community Should Care About the New Medicare Panel" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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• You must stop editing--or you'll never finish anything. Begin with a time-management decision that indicates when the editing is to be finished: the deadline from which you construct your revisionary agenda. Ask yourself, 'How much editing time is this project worth?' Then allow yourself that time. If it's a 1,000-word newspaper article, it's worth editing for an hour or two. Allow yourself no more. Do all the editing you want, but decide that the article will go out at the end of the allotted time, in the form it then possesses.

  Kenneth Atchity

  Editing, Two, Agendas

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• The courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine Destiny.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Destiny, Determine

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Thinking, Understanding

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• Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

  Mardy Grothe

  Running, Heart, Critical Decisions

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