Decision Quotes - Page 8

• Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Thinking, Giving, Justice

  Advice to a newly appointed colonial governor ignorant in the law, in John Lord Campbell 'The Lives of the Chief Justices of England' (1849) vol. 2, ch. 40

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• Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Choices, Kind, Made

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Philosophy, Joining, Path

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.396, A&C Black

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• My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

  Anne Tyler

  Inspiration, Engagement, Literature

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• How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .

  George Eliot

  Men, Age, Alternatives

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• There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

  Blaise Pascal

  Past, Looks, Action

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

  Albert Einstein

  Language, Theory

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• If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

  Roger McGough

  Indecisive, Ifs

  Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2005.

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• I don't take right decisions, I take decisions and make them right

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Quaid, Quaid Azam, Right Decision

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• Of two evils choose the prettier.

  Carolyn Wells

  Two, Evil, Moral

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• I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

  Joel Osteen

  Father, Trying, Passed Away

  "The Osteens on the Power of Positive Believing". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

  Woody Allen

  Marriage, Funny Love, Best Love

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• An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

  Edward de Bono

  Knowing, Judgement, Experts

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Simplicity”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

  Stephen Covey

  Self Esteem, Creativity, Accomplishment

  Interview With Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

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• In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Women, Past, People

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• Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Happiness, Procrastination

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Time, Men, Data

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.24, Penguin

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• When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

  George S. Patton

  Decision Making, Made, Right Time

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• Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

  Hermann Broch

  Believe, Reality, Men

  Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.468, Vintage

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• The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  Mistake, Long, Percentages

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• To seek a justification for a decision already made.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Choices, Made, Justification

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

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• The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

  Charles Tupper

  Government, Law, Given

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• You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

  John Engler

  Work, Winning, Tough

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