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“I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.”

Want Persons Made I Can Different Stuff Chance Decision Subjects Information Comfort Projects Originals Zone Different Things Comfort Zone

Author:Brian Grazer

“Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.”

Important Left Decision Majors Investment Private Sector

Author:Lester Thurow

“I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.”

Stills Decision Agree Iraq Invasion

Author:William Hague

“There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.”

Kind Decision Fine Directors Mediums Producers Say Anything Unwritten Unwritten Rules

Author:Robert Carlyle

“There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's eyes. So they're completely available for whatever happens. And those are actors who tend to avoid getting into patterns.”

Play Moments Happens Eye Actors Decision Scene Patterns Available Partners Whatever Happens

Author:Anthony Heald

“People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.”

People Way Needs Feels Process Decision Levels Decided Machines One Way Decision Making Parliament Need A Change

Author:William Hague

“Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.”

Littles Opportunity Decision Amazing Opportunities

Author:Rupert Wyatt

“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.”

World Humans Decision Decision Making Centre Civilisation Hub Diffusion

Author:William Hague

“Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.”

Would Be Decision Policy Ethical Regimes Foreign Policy Defining Exclusive Dealings Implied Unethical

Author:William Hague

“No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.”

Want Made Kids Decision Happened Events One Day Drug Wake Up Sticks Series Dealer Drug Dealers

Author:Michael K. Williams

“Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.”

Ifs Way Giving Trying Character Facts Decision Core Sections Making Up

Author:William Gibson

“People have to make their own decisions about their lives.”

People Decision

Author:Meryl Streep

“I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.”

World Giving Feels Body Decision Virtue Very Strong Withholding

Author:Meryl Streep

“When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.”

Able Decision Structure

Author:Tony Krantz

“I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.”

Thinking Important Decision Our Lives Important Decisions

Author:John Legend

“I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.”

Giving Able Wanted Lines My Own Decision Involved Giving Up Management Bottom Bottom Line

Author:Queen Latifah

“Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.”

People Want Decision Forget Like Me Shy Introverted

Author:Wayne Coyne

“I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older and the people who make the decisions get older, they don't like hiring people much older than them because it reminds them of their fathers, and they don't like telling people older than them what to do. It makes them uncomfortable. I think that happens a lot.”

People Thinking Looks Happens Actors Father Loses Decision Talent Uncomfortable Hiring Changes Over Time

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I think that I would have made a fine president. But it really came down for me to a very personal, a very intimate and a spiritual decision. I don't rule anything out for the long-term future.”

Thinking Long Made Spiritual President Term Decision Fine Intimate Long Term

Author:Mike Huckabee

“We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.”

People Fighting Waiting Water Decision Risk Planets One Day Resources Wake Up Oil Permanent Extinction

Author:Desmond Tutu

“As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.”

Giving Jobs President Decision Advice Needed Tools Lays Objectives Chiefs Experts Rely Combat Day To Day Commanders Commander In Chief Rely Upon Admiral

Author:Ted Cruz

“Wearable devices are here to stay, and they'll only get more sophisticated and effective as they evolve. Until now, most of us have made our health and fitness decisions based on what we think we know about ourselves. Advancements in technology - wearables and otherwise - will eventually take much of the guess work out of healthy living.”

Thinking Knows Made Decision Technology Healthy Work Out Evolve Devices Healthy Living Sophisticated Advancement Health And Fitness

Author:Michael Dell

“If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.”

Ifs Inspirational Enough Inspiration Motivational Decision Planning Accomplished

Author:Edward Everett Hale

“A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.”

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Author:RuPaul

“It always pays off to focus on things that will make you feel proud. Remember this during every difficult decision you face.”

Feels Remember Faces Difficult Decision Pay Focus Proud Difficult Decisions

Author:Richard Branson

“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.”

Needs Long Hard Helping Running Remember Passion Energy Hours Decision Successful Tough Believer Involving Successful Business Long Hours New Business Hard Decision Running A Business

Author:Richard Branson

“Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.”

Thinking Trying Sometimes Moments Decision Mistake Making Mistakes Spurs I Make Mistakes Spur Of The Moment

Author:David Rubenstein

“It's weird to make a decision where everyone in your life disapproves, pretty vocally and directly. They said, "You've got one year left. Just do it." I had a full scholarship so I didn't have to pay for it. They asked, "Why don't you just get the degree so you can have it?" And I said, "You don't understand. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do and now I know. I have the answer and it's dumb to waste any more time."”

Knows Trying Years Said Wanted Left Decision Answers Pay Figures Degrees Waste Dumb More Time They Said Scholarship Just Do It

Author:Demetri Martin

“A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.”

Decision Accepting Mines Comfortable Consequence Skins Live By Gloves Thug

Book:Magic City: Trials of a Native Son

Source: Magic City: Trials of a Native Son

“Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.”

Two Decision Careers Refuse Guidance Spouse

Author:Alain de Botton

“We all make decisions. But in the end, our decisions make us.”

Ends Decision

Author:Tiger Woods

“Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.”

People Can Do Decision Bad Things Good People Bad People Bad Decision

Author:Sonia

“In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.”

“Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.”

Ifs Has Beens Force Decision Virtue Taken Greater Dissent Eloquent

Book:Name-Dropping: From FDR On

Source: Name-Dropping: From FDR On

“Its not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.”

Decision Like You Percent

Author:Tiffeny Milbrett

“A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.”

“The recommendation by the Arkansas Supreme Court Disciplinary Committee that President Clinton be disbarred is like a tender green shoot of integrity rising from the stinking junkyard of American public life. At last, some official body has come to a decision about Clinton's conduct that is untainted by politics, cowardice or cynicism.”

“The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?”

Decision Half Judging Agree Court International Supreme Divided Supreme Court Foreigners

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, were free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.”

Want Needs Use Form Decision Habit Extraordinary Decision Making Willpower Authentic Happiness

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.”

Men Way Long Two Life Is Force Realizing Decision Style Spending Income Saving Addresses Mates Our Relationship Better Off

Author:Patti Stanger

“When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.”

People Giving Reality Purpose Certain Universe Decision Moral Vision Ultimate Function Guides Commit Moral Decisions

Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.”

Littles Whole Process Decision Company Window Court Internals Email Violation Enron

Author:Julian Assange

“Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.”

People Law Community Decision Constitution Discussing

Author:Julian Assange

“Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.”

Two Moments Happens Decision Things Happen Life Changing

Author:Brian Chesky

“Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.”

Persons Able Decision Politician Meetings Candidates Not Interested Great Ones Right Decision One On One Make The Right Decision

Author:Kenneth C. Griffin

“We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.”

Thinking Political Actors Justice Decision Struggle Imagine Authority Court Myth Supreme Branches Imagine That Supreme Court Umpires Legitimacy

Author:Noah Feldman

“You make decisions and decisions will make you.”

Decision

Author:Lester Sumrall

“Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.”

Action Jesus Christ Decision Jesus Christ Discipleship

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.”

Ifs Men Should Years Doe Choices Father Term Decision Support Share Independent Finance Pregnancy Liable Autonomous Biological Fathers

Author:Karen DeCrow

“I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.”

Thinking Government Decision Responsibility Huge Consequence

Author:Gerry Adams

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