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“What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.”

Ifs Knows Men Children Made Humanity Work Decision Rooms Business Terrible Office Tragedy Denial Nurturing Inhuman More To Life Work Place

Author:Dora Russell

“I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.”

Looks Made Language Decision Class Violence Streets Mines Pages Determination Crosses Thirds Determined Working Class

Book:Trash

Source: Trash

“The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. As you begin to practice this openness, you'll quickly discover adventure in the simple reality of a world that defies your expectations. More often than not, you'll discover that “adventure” is a decision after the fact-a way of deciphering an event or an experience that you can't quite explain.”

World Way Needs Firsts Facts Home Reality Simple Decision Secret Practice Events Adventure Habit Expectations Overcoming Openness Protective Unpredictability

Author:Rolf Potts

“I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.”

Way Feels Should Mean Decision Beauty Special

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.”

Decision Health Sticks Life Altering

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.”

Mean Hard Enough Decision Respect Caring Loving You Loving Yourself Hard Decision Caring Enough

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.”

People World Desire Motivation Force Interest Chance Decision Television Ambition Scared Enormous Mediums Enthusiasm Primaries Innovative Take A Chance

Author:Sally Quinn

“Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.”

War Decision Military Affair Gender Nuclear Decision Making Gaps Sexism Disarmament Excluded Nuclear Disarmament Foreign Affairs Gender Gap

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.”

Kind Government Would Be Care Given Decision Type Ideals Profound Aspire Procedures Medication Making Decisions

Author:Nan Hayworth

“Out of the 10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?”

May Matter Stories Lasts Decision Serious Months News News Stories

Author:Rolf Dobelli

“We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.”

Ifs Mind May Made Helping Might Happens Eye Decision Situation Missing Expectations Function Disappointment Valuable Finding Yourself Unhappiness Fulfilled

Book:Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

Source: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

“Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.”

Home Wanted Courses Social Justice Decision Forget Roots Crisis Social Justice Financial Congress Financial Crisis

Author:Ed Royce

“High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.”

Use Growth Nature Decision Views Successful Land Taxes Smart Investment Environmental Employee Conservation Housing Employers Transportation Land Use Smart Growth

Author:Carl Guardino

“As a man seeing someone, have a decision: You can be correct or you can be glad.”

Men Decision Seeing Glad

Author:Ralphie May

“The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.”

Way Values Choices Decision Decisions You Make

Author:Alice Waters

“By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.”

Needs Giving Done Decision Focus Giving Up Outcomes Expecting Not Giving Up

Author:Eric Maisel

“Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.”

Decision Bears Consequence

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.”

Age Decision Old Age

Book:The Man Who Loved Children

Source: The Man Who Loved Children

“Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it.”

Ifs Decision Company Risk Position Cash Fashionable Wrong Decision

Author:Joel Spolsky

“It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too. Oppression doesn't exist in Islam. And in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally... This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science - and the realities of the times.”

People Men Should Mean Reality Law Decision Rights Development Equal Men And Women Interpretation Equal Rights Mean Man

Author:Yousef Saanei

“I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.”

People Way Should Writing May Wanted Decision Risk Safe Concerned Heavy Worried Evident Casualties Incurring

Author:Christopher Vokes

“My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.”

Law Decision Streets Wall Industry Independent Focused Software Expanding

Author:Safra A. Catz

“When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.”

Made Ideas Would Be Decision Female Males Killing Honestly No Idea Transition Pretending

Book:Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Source: Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

“Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.”

Mother Decision Tiny Being A Mother

Book:The Husband's Secret

Source: The Husband's Secret

“even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.”

Death Decision Capable

Author:Connie May Fowler

“The most important thing that I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade.”

Way I Can Important Different Sometimes Form Choices Decision Share Important Things Different Ways Irrevocable Personal Knowledge

Author:Joan Bennett Kennedy

“Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.”

Important Moving Next Decision Cost Decided

Author:Joshua Schachter

“I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.”

Care Able Law Decision Protect Access Health Care Consistently Contraceptives Reproductive Health

Author:Dan Maffei

“Clutter is postponed decisions.”

Decision Clutter

Author:Barbara

“I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.”

Writing Ends Decision Team Producers Tone Editing

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.”

Whole Decision Pieces Months Minors Movie Making Crashing Down

Author:Sidney Lumet

“I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.”

Believe Doe I Believe Understanding Decision Situation I Believe In Dialogue Journalism Bridges Gaps Dynamics

Author:Brad Pitt

“The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States.”

People Should Made States Facts America Decision United United States Ordinary Texas

Author:Barack Obama

“At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.”

Courses Ability Decision Levels Assured

Author:Barack Obama

“My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.”

Way Matter Facts Stories Able Choices Fighting Opportunity Chance My Own Ability Decision Direct Decision Making Life Story

Author:Barack Obama

“The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.”

Long Two Government School Term Challenges Decision Building Taxes Long Term Two Things Holiday Infrastructure Deficit Reduction Payroll Payroll Tax

Author:Jacob Lew

“Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.”

Decision Selling

Author:Moby

“A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.”

Order President Decision Principles Achieve

Author:George W. Bush

“I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.”

Made States Political Nations Decision United Party United States Saws Members Threat Congress Saddam Political Parties United Nations Hussein Right Decision

Author:George W. Bush

“You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose.”

Knows Decision Prove Harder Down And Angry Coaches Rise Above Pissed Off Rise Above It

Author:Carli Lloyd

“The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.”

“I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.”

Way Trying Persons Made I Can Play Character Decision Interesting Audience Judging Approach Villain Very Interesting Interesting Ways

Author:Kevin Spacey

“If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.”

Ifs My Own Decision Successful Plans Talent Tables Impulse Being Successful My Own Life

Author:Star Parker

“I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.”

Fun Decision Cigarette Tobacco Dope Sabbath Reunion

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.”

Made Moments Film Decision Half Havens Example Projects Shots Train Defeat Stuck Occasions Going To Work Runaway

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. Then I just go for it.”

Thinking Way Important Decision Advice Characteristics Listeners Good Listener

Author:Tom Cruise

“Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.”

Real Hard Bigs Decision Our Lives Directors Excited Corporations Voting Seals

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.”

Believe Together I Believe Decision Worst Havens All Things Working Together Business Decisions

Author:Tyler Perry

“With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.”

Thinking Humans Bigs Courses Human Beings Decision Figures Gender Great Things Educated Big Things Sympathetic

Author:Will Oldham

“I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.”

Made Decision Approach Music Is

Author:Taryn Manning

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