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“We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make.”

World Want Humans Artist Order Decision Creativity Movement Creation Creating Creator Interaction

Author:Michael Gungor

“The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.”

Believe Important Universe Decision Friendly Important Decisions

Author:Albert Einstein

“Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.”

Needs Mean Decision Late Too Late

Book:Social Blunders: A Novel

Source: Social Blunders: A Novel

“I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”

People Want Truth Decision Society Information Telling The Truth Espionage Public Policy Informing Us Army Informed Citizenry

Author:Chelsea Manning

“As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.”

Used Decision Eldest Unpopular Decisions

Author:Hetty King

“Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.”

Winning Decision Failing Willing Making Decisions Afraid To Fail

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.”

Seems Moving Next Decision Careers Next Move

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.”

World Simple Decision Changed Son Accepted Trust In God Changing Your Life Commitment To God Changed My Life Servant Of God

Book:Billy Graham in Quotes

Source: Billy Graham in Quotes

“we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.”

Needs Decision Majors Areas Critical Manage Day To Day Critical Decisions

Book:The 360 Degree Leader with Workbook: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

Source: The 360 Degree Leader with Workbook: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.”

Long Decision Filled Complexes Everyday Simplicity Everyday Life Ordinariness

Author:Ursus Wehrli

“The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.”

Should Writing Looks Important Lines Decision Policy Discipline Elements Approach Add Investment Bottom Investing Statements Finance Maps Grounded Bottom Line Top Down Road Maps

Author:Lewis Schiff

“Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.”

Voice Decision Pleasure Ears Revenge Deaf Adders

Book:Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

“Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.”

Thinking Made Important Decision Important Decisions

Author:Mason Cooley

“Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.”

Seems Decision Inevitable Absent Absent Minded

Author:Mason Cooley

“Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain.”

Feels Certain Asks Decision Answers Patient Calm Intuition Guidance Be Patient

Author:Deepak Chopra

“When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.”

Looks Might Games Decision Records Effects International Japan Good Decision

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.”

Ifs Different Use Decision Principles Cases

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.”

“My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)”

Art America Past Reading Peace Decision History Power Shapes Meetings Ritual Telephones Monarchy Transfers Making Peace Art History

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.”

Trying Leadership Ability Decision Tough Capacity Tested Tough Decisions Trying Times

Author:Ehud Olmert

“The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.”

“Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken.”

War Sides Decision Taken Impossible Greatness Prove Ocean Distance Dare Germany Emperor

Author:Wilhelm II

“The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be established-where the exploding changes in health care that are now underway will be addressed.”

Body Care Challenges Decision Policy Position Health Care Boards Decision Making Exploding

Author:Arthur Caplan

“As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.”

People Feels Long Decision Agree Feel Good

Author:Kristen Stewart

“The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.”

Facts Seems Law Voice Decision Common Sky Forgotten Sovereign Sovereignty Brooding Common Law

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.”

Men Decision Study Economic Movement Aspect Economics Structure Relevant Cognitive Behavioral Economics

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.”

World Moving Decision Results Plans Significant

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.”

Humans Past Decision Conditions Tasks Patterns Observation Bridges Gaps Realistic Human Condition Human Knowledge

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.”

Should Two Country States Difficult Lines Decision Democratic Attraction Certainty Civilized License Prohibition Totalitarian State Democratic Country Two Options

Book:Time to Be in Earnest

Source: Time to Be in Earnest

“I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.”

Men World Littles Decision Policy Married Relation International Peaceful Realms Foreign Policy International Relations Reserved Excluded Peaceful World

Author:W. H. Auden

“It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.”

Thinking Loss Decision Situation Seeing Minutes Exercise Ten Intellectual Gains Rational Bridges Being The Best Calculations Ratios Weighing New Situations

Author:Warren Buffett

“There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.”

Thinking Feels Moments Belief Force Decision Alive Influence Determine How You Feel

Book:Notes From A Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life

Source: Notes From A Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life

“Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.”

People Ifs Want Values Can Do Decision Forever Study Successful Clear Labor Successful People You Can Do It Decisiveness

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.”

Knows Important Simple Decision Priorities

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.”

People Believe Has Beens Facts Stories Individual Term Decision Results History Middle Subjects Possibility Conscious Intention West Assets Openness Autonomy Inertia Erosion Unforeseen Topsoil

Author:George Will

“Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.”

Knows Writing Use Today Interest Decision Friends Walking Letters Clean Shoes Phones Excuse Pairs Closets Avoided Convenient Phone Calls Walking Shoes

Author:Wayne Dyer

“While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it remains to be seen whether these decisions lead to predictable errors that create systematic mispricings upon which rational investors can readily and economically capitalize.”

Humans Human Beings Decision Theory Evidence Remains Errors Investing Financial Rational Investors Irrational Apostles Predictable Systematic

Author:John C. Bogle

“Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.”

People Ifs Humans Stills Self Interest Decision Pay Advice Human Nature Suicide Investing Commit Makers Fewer Self Interest Good Advice Portfolios Good Money Decision Makers

Author:Paul Samuelson

“Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.”

“Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.”

People Thinking Knows Running Church Decision Office Hollywood South Connected Executives Chicago Mississippi Carolina Alabama South Carolina

Author:Steve Harvey

“The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.”

Needs Loss Decision Effort Mistake Serious Aim Investing Chiefs Investors Passive Emphasis Avoidance Annoyance Serious Mistakes

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.”

Force Simple Decision Standards Investing Objectives

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Only in the exceptional case, where the integrity and competence of the advisers have been thoroughly demonstrated, should the investor act upon the advice of others without understanding and approving the decision made.”

Should Has Beens Made Understanding Decision Cases Advice Integrity Investing Investors Exceptional Competence Adviser Decisions Made Approving

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.”

Inspirational Made Said Values Parent Religious Decision Teacher Politician Judgment Historian Assessment Decisions Made

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?”

Inspirational Matter Term Religious Decision Events Circumstances Opposites Objectives Description Relative

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have to say, "I don't know. I just don't know." Yet still you'll have to decide. And so you'll have to choose. You'll have to make an arbitrary choice. Such a choice - a decision coming from no previous personal knowledge - is called pure creation. And the individual is aware, deeply aware, that in the making of such decisions is the Self created.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Stills Self Hard Values Choices Individual Difficult Religious Decision Creation Pure Judgment Arbitrary Personal Knowledge

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.”

“As Graham, Dodd and Buffett have all said, you should always remember that you don't have to swing at every pitch. You can wait for opportunities that fit your criteria and if you don't find them, patiently wait. Deciding not to panic is still a decision.”

Ifs Should Said Stills Remember Opportunity Waiting Decision Fit Investing Swings Criteria Buffett

Author:Seth Klarman

“I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.”

Believe Long Made Running I Believe Decision Effort Majors Gains Investing Valuable Long Runs Business Life

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do.”

Values Difficult Decision Sells Investing Difficult Things

Author:Walter Schloss

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