Hard Decision Quotes - Page 2

• I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

  Christine Feehan

  Choices, Decision, Apologizing

  Christine Feehan (2005). “Oceans of Fire”, p.123, Penguin

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• But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves - rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mother, Teenage, Children

  "How To Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, 2011.

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• My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.

  Rudolf Hess

  Mother, Children, Eye

  "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.

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• If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

  P. Chidambaram

  Country, Taken, Decision

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• Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

  William Safire

  Writing, Mean, Two

  "How to Read a Column" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2005.

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• When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.

  Barack Obama

  People, Choices, Decision

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way.

  Meryl Streep

  Running, Men, Play

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

  Matt Lucas

  Jobs, Real, Decision

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a character and to leave all the hard decision-making to some other room full of suckers!

  Andy Daly

  Fun, Writing, Character

  "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• The people at the label were great but at the end of the day our visions didn't match up and I knew I had to do it my way. The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made. It was a hard decision to make, but I've never regretted it for a second and it's only become more clear to me after making and releasing Stairwells that it was the right one.

  Kina Grannis

  People, Decision, Vision

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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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, Decision, Risk

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• I think normally people think that they're afraid to die but I actually think people are more afraid to live. People are more afraid to make the choices that they want because they're very hard decisions to make in order to be happy. I think a lot of people are really afraid of that. It's easy to be in a band because you have a lot of things to hide behind so that's really not always living...that doesn't always constitute as living life the way you want. But at times you have to make decisions that sometimes hurt others in order to live.

  Gerard Way

  Hurt, Live Life, Thinking

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• I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Passion, Successful

  "Gentleman's Journal" Interview, www.thegentlemansjournal.com. December 10, 2012.

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• The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.

  Chuck Martin

  Decision, Problem, Bigs

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