Decision Quotes - Page 38

• The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

  Raymond Williams

  Real, Choices, Lines

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• Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, People, Important

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Frontiers of Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.

  Ira Carmen

  Lying, Men, Sweat

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• Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.

  Thomas Sowell

  Keys, Needs, Stories

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• I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

  James D. Watson

  Giving, Mind, Needs

  "What I've Learned: James Watson". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. October 19, 2007.

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• Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us.

  Howard Gardner

  Mind, Kind, Wells

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• Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  People, Lines, Film

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• A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and challenging circumstances.

  Richard G. Scott

  Challenges, Confusing, Principles

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• Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Exercise, Cutting, Emotional

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• It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

  Wilhelm II

  Army, Soldier, Together

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• I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.

  Wilhelm II

  Believe, Men, Years

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• Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Dhoni, Tests, Quitting

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• In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Years, Insanity

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.

  Rudolf Hess

  Action, Moments, Said

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• Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.

  Vinita Hampton Wright

  Artistic Life, Be Kind, Trump

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• Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

  Hank Green

  Perfect, Worst

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• The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.

  Eric Johnston

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

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• Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

  William James

  Worry, Stop Worrying

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• Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.

  Harvey Mackay

  Heart, Disease, Ends

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Loss, Forever, Delayed

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Night, People

  Obama Wall Street Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2009.

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• People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.

  Henry Blackaby

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.

  Tony Robbins

  Doe, Succeed, Determined

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• For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

  Alan Watts

  Bird, Singing, Hiccups

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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