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“Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.”

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“The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that no one in Europe has had an innovative idea in well over a century.”

Wells Made Ideas Country Decision Century Europe Response Realization Parks Theme Collectives Innovative Theme Parks Innovative Ideas

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“President Bush said he was 'troubled' by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this the people should make the decision, not judges. Unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges.”

People Should Said Important Courses President Decision Issues Judging Gay Married San Francisco President Bush Gay People Getting Married Important Issues

Author:Jay Leno

“No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.”

Needs Children Matter Parent Decision Results Fate Adults Just One Again And Again Configuration

Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“Happiness is a decision I must make.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.”

War Government Purpose Force Decision Support

Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.”

Turns Decision

Author:Frank W. Boreham

“Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.”

Ifs Men Mind Firsts Made Reason Courses Chance Decision Rejects Stumble Upon

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists because we don't know the future, we don't know if the decision we make will lead to the best possible outcome. Cognitive science has taught us that relying on our gut or intuition often leads to bad decisions, particularly in cases where statistical information is available. Our guts and our brains didn't evolve to deal with probabilistic thinking.”

“My future does not depend on me but on any decision by the Togo federation.”

Doe Decision Depends My Future Federation

Author:Stephen Keshi

“We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.”

“Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Would Be Decision Responsibility Steps Mankind Ought Dignity Majority Surrender Experiments Shoulders Cowardice First Steps Retreat Drowning Floundering

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.”

Feelings Turns White Decision Fruit Useless Idle Delay Breeze Floats Orchard

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.”

Decision Trouble Trouble Making

Author:Esther Hicks

“Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions. You could go this way, or that way, and either way will eventually get you to where you want to be. But in the moment you start complimenting yourself on the decision you've made, in that moment, you come back into vibrational alignment with who-you-really-are.”

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Author:Esther Hicks

“Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all.”

Ifs Seems Desire Strong Decision Situation Stronger Faster Life Or Death

Author:Esther Hicks

“A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.”

Enough Happens Desire Energy Decision Powerful Law Of Attraction

Author:Esther Hicks

“Make a decision and then make the decision right. Line up your Energy with it. In most cases it doesn't really matter what you decide. Just decide. There are endless options that would serve you enormously well, and all or any one of them is better than no decision.”

Wells Matter Energy Lines Decision Cases Endless

Author:Esther Hicks

“Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.”

World Mind Firsts Body Happiness Decision Materials Unhappiness Physical Body Material World Mind Body

Author:Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.”

Self Might Goal Decision Achieve Identity Tasks Response Make Sense Range Who We Are Justify Adolescence Clarification

Author:Terri E Apter

“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.”

My Own Decision Animal Compassion Healthy Concerned I Realized Diets Vegetarian Vegan Consumption Vegetarianism Animal Compassion Vegan Diet

Author:Davey Havok

“The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.”

Kind Decision Principles Simplest Binary Yes Or No

Book:Archaeological Decipherment: A Handbook

Source: Archaeological Decipherment: A Handbook

“What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.”

Want Desire Leadership Decision Answers Results Achieve Strategy Planning Objectives

Author:William E. Rothschild

“Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously to create an authentic voice. Somehow voice seems to be the natural manifestation of all the narrative decisions we've made so far. We discover it more than we fabricate it.”

Writing Made Hard Stories Seems Voice Natural Decision Quality Narrative Manifestation Elusive Fabricate

Author:Philip Gerard

“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.”

“Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.”

Thinking Mind Use Force Decision Higher Willpower Primal Clutch Mind Thinking

Author:A. Curtiss

“The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.”

Children Community Decision Future Collectives

Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is not simply a matter of seat belts, safe toys, safe air, water and food, additive-free baby foods, or improved television programming. These are all important issues, but to stop here is to forget that today's children will soon be adults. Technological decisions made today will determine, perhaps irrevocably, the kind of physical and social world we bequeath them and the kind of people they become.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?”

Persons Matter Earth Spiritual Decision Teaching Projects Essence Army Tolerance Dialogue Former Consideration Respectful Down To Earth Colonels Essence Of Life Business Decisions

Author:Shari Arison

“Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.”

“It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple so [their children] from the time [they are] infant[s] could look at the picture every day [until] it becomes a part of [their lives]. When [they reach] the age that [they need] to make [the] very important decision [concerning going to the temple], it will have already been made.”

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Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Never make decisions from a place of lack.”

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Author:Arianna Huffington

“My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.”

Looks Ideas Decision Groups Mirrors

Author:Warren Buffett

“Understand and apply this vital principle to your life: Your exercise of faith builds character. Fortified character expands your capacity to exercise greater faith. Thus, your confidence in making correct decisions is enhanced. And the strengthening cycle continues. The more your character is fortified, the more enabled you are to exercise the power of faith for yet stronger character.”

Character Decision Principles Greater Exercise Capacity Stronger Cycles Strengthening

Author:Richard G. Scott

“Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.”

Important Law Decision Court Gender Supreme Supreme Court Classification Court Decision

Author:Carolyn Maloney

“Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?”

World Made Stills Values Decision Pleasure Fool Cost Judgment Deeds Mortals Delusion Decisions Made

Author:Steven Erikson

“In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.”

Purpose Difficult Space Decision Intuition Purpose Of Life Time And Space Difficult Decisions True Purpose

Author:Larry Sanders

“Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.”

Different Decision Cases Color Computer Video Display Pixels

Author:Charles Petzold

“The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.”

Humans Made Problem Faces Heaven Decision

Author:Bernie Sanders

“More than ever I'm proud to be an American, to live in a country that respects the rights of all to marry whomever they love. The Supreme Court decision gives new meaning to the freedoms we cherish.”

Giving Country Decision Rights Proud Court Supreme Cherish Supreme Court Court Decision Proud To Be An American

Author:Ralph Lauren

“I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'”

“You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.”

Ifs Decision Right Decision

Author:Joan Didion

“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.”

Men Action Born Decision Principles Instinct Decision Making Freak Transcending

Book:The Revolution of Hope

Source: The Revolution of Hope

“Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry can be a career decision or an attraction to "religion" more than the result of an encounter with God or themselves. Formal religious status can maintain the false self rather effectively, especially if there are a lot of social payoffs like special respect, titles, salaries, a good self image, or nice costumes. It is no accident that the religious "Pharisees" became the symbolic bad guys in the Jesus story.”

Source: Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self

“Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.”

Reason Play Culture Decision Roles Car Identity Mouths Driving

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”

“Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving.”

Way Giving Decision Easier Stronger Raises Missions Characteristics Decision Making Reverse Congregation Shorthand Visitation

Author:Kennon Callahan

“Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.”

Made Wisdom Decision Wise Decision Making Consistently Wise Decision

Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create an economic order in the world that will promote more growth, more equality, better preservation of the environment, and a greater possibility of world peace, we are on the verge of a global economic expansion that is sparked by the fact that the United States at this critical moment decided that we would compete, not retreat.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993

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