Decision Quotes - Page 40

• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

  Philip K. Dick

  Memories, Moving, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

  Rex Stout

  Thinking, Important, Reason

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I". Life Magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• Moving to New York was the best decision I ever made.

  Johnny Damon

  New York, Moving, Made

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• The coach has put a lot of trust in me to make good decisions in the post.

  Pau Gasol

  Good Decision, Coaches, Posts

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• No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.

  James Surowiecki

  Giving, Mind, Guarantees

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.220, Anchor

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• We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

  Gavin de Becker

  Inspirational, Children, Nice

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.

  David Hawkins

  Choices, Reacting, Seeming

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• I'm going to be prayerful about it. Whatever decision I make hopefully is the best decision I can make for my family and the fans and everybody.

  Albert Pujols

  Fans, My Family, Prayerful

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• I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.

  Carson Palmer

  Smart, Needs, Balls

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• The only mental games in ski racing is the mental game against yourself. Is the whole goal of life preserving your life as long as you can? No. The goal is to enjoy your life, challenge yourself, to sometimes make stupid decisions-which are sometimes fun and sometimes idiotic and sometimes just a big fat mistake you regret.

  Bode Miller

  Fun, Regret, Mistake

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• As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Player, Leaving, Looks

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• With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

  Niall FitzGerald

  Thinking, Decisions We Make, Doe

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• Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  War, Stupid, Men

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• Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Teamwork, Athlete

  Mariah Burton Nelson (2002). “We Are All Athletes”, Dare Press

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• My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.

  Garrett Atkins

  College, Parent, Bigs

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• The key is being with the right people and making the right decisions.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  Keys, People, Right Decision

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• If the player has the confidence and ability, then he should sign with the pro team. Academics certainly play a large part in the decision, but if someone feels they are ready to sign, they should.

  Mark Mulder

  Team, Player, Should

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• There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.

  Lamar Odom

  Basketball, Talking, Nba

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• For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!

  Jeff Bezos

  Leader, Analysis, Kind

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• No happy man bases his decisions on fear.

  Jake Anderson

  Men, Bases, Happy Man

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• The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. Before people making a buying decision, they have many questions. For example, why they should buy from you, why your product is better than other similar products, why they should trust you, and why they should buy it now, etc.

  David Ogilvy

  People, Example, Buying

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• Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

  S. D Gordon

  Strong, Father, Men

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• Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

  Brian Tracy

  Reflection, Thinking, Lessons

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• We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Jobs, Thinking

  "Dolly Parton's Anniversary; Walter Cronkite on Peter Jennings". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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• Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.

  Tony Robbins

  Significant Change, Long, Culture

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