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“I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.”

Way Wanted Mother Father Speak Decision Study Serious Medicine Trepidation

Book:In praise of imperfection: my life and work

Source: In praise of imperfection: my life and work

“I think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You're going to want to tell stories about yourself.”

People Thinking Want Stories Decision Hollywood Driven Pot About Yourself Melting Melting Pot

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.”

People Ifs Jobs Next Given Decision Embrace Unhappy Instance Controversy

Author:Gina McCarthy

“Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.”

Use Energy Decision Cost Standards Impact Arguing Consumers Efficiency Emissions Energy Use

Author:Gina McCarthy

“When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.”

Government Decision Influence Gains Advantage Factors Consumers Decision Making Efficiency Federal Government Weighing

Author:Gina McCarthy

“While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever.”

People Heart Decision Forever Stay With Me Heart Wrenching Turnaround Stay With Me Forever

Author:Mike McGavick

“Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I’m going to do that.”

Ifs Want Made Wanted Actors Opportunity Fun Decision Interesting Projects Juilliard

Author:Anthony Mackie

“I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.”

Ifs Thinking Two Helping Decision Minutes Score Throwing Think Positive Right Decision Receiver Make The Right Decision

Author:Dan Marino

“My parents are always supportive of anything their kids do. They point out the pros and cons, but they let you make your own decisions, and when it's bad they stick by you.”

Kids Parent Decision Sticks Supportive Pros And Cons

Author:Eleanor Mondale

“You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.”

Feels Decision Factors Limitation Distinctive

Author:Ennio Morricone

“I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.”

Want Has Beens Made Decision Computer Track Endless Nightmare

Author:Ian MacKaye

“When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.”

World Made Said Country Bigs Would Be Able Courses Left Wish Decision Cry Directors Ten Embrace University East Being The Best Coast Athletic Prestige Iowa East Coast Rutgers

Author:C. Vivian Stringer

“As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there were decrees implementing laws. Then a law was made saying, ‘There shall be no laws.’ Then there were orders and directives that were written down, but still published in ministerial gazettes. Then there was government by announcement; orders appeared in newspapers. Then there were the quiet orders, the orders that were not published, that were within the bureaucracy, that were oral. And finally, there were no orders at all. Everybody knew what he had to do.”

Years Firsts Made Stills Whole Government Law Order Decision Written Changed Quiet Structure Newspapers Decision Making Regimes Nazi Bureaucracy Decree Announcements Implementing

Author:Raul Hilberg

“With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism - the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.”

“We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Trying Kind Goal Decision Rich Products Source Marketing Strikes Capitalist Users Modest Venture Open Source Venture Capitalists

Author:Blake Ross

“I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.”

People Feels Shows Young Felt Decision Needed Skins Teenager Judged

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“A great brand taps into emotions. Emotions drive most, if not all, of our decisions. A brand reaches out with a powerful connecting experience. It's an emotional connecting point that transcends the product.”

Ifs Decision Powerful Emotion Emotional Products Brands Reach Out Connecting

Author:Scott Bedbury

“The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.”

Years Believe Stills Use Certain Decision Quality Accounts Sight Photographer Photograph Appropriate Vocabulary Embarrassing Compelled I Still Believe

Author:Robert Adams

“You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!”

Different Decision Defining Different Life

Author:Mark Batterson

“If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.”

Ifs Enough Decision Work Out Bad Decision Things Work Out

Author:Geoff Ramsey

“For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.”

Years Has Beens Left Nations Decision Foundation Court Supreme Invention Thirty Privacy Supreme Court Assault Thirty Years Systematic Wade Roe V Wade Waging War Court Decision

Author:David Horowitz

“If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Decision United Democracy Citizens Notion Supposed To Be Citizens United

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.”

Feels Made My Own Decision Photography Connected Stomach Inner Life

Author:Jacob Aue Sobol

“Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.”

States Government Choices Individual Decision Levels Roles Return Centre Migration Facilitate Emigration Individual Choice

Author:Vayalar Ravi

“There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.”

Decision Picks Tough Election Good Times Governance Tough Decisions Good Governance Unpopular Decisions

Author:Jairam Ramesh

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.”

Ifs Mean Made Games Easy Decision Morning Mass Fundamentals Seven Get Up Sunday Dedicated Sunday Morning

Author:Mike Piazza

“We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security.”

People Important Country Decision Security Balance Areas Critical Checks Our Country National Security Critical Decisions

Author:Chris Van Hollen

“Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.”

Process Decision Results Effort Risk Needed Expectations Planning Organized Feedback Strategic Entrepreneurial Systematic Measuring Risk-taking Strategic Planning

Book:Management

Source: Management

“In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.”

“Depict a leader who seemed overwhelmed and rarely made key decisions.”

Made Decision Leader Keys Overwhelmed

Author:Charlie Melancon

“I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.”

Thinking Knows Trying Decision Careful Moths Limelight Misperception

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.”

Ideas Enough Term Decision Economic Honest Circumstances Brotherhood Frank Laziness Integration Evaluate Sentimentality Cover Ups Economic Integration

Author:Benjamin Mkapa

“The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.”

Made Decision Periods Music Business

Author:Ja Rule

“Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies makes stupid acts, stupid food makes stupid skin, stupid bed makes stupid sleep, stupid ideas makes stupid decisions, stupid clothes makes stupid appearance. Lets get rid of stupidity from our stupid short lives.”

Ideas Belief Sleep Decision Leader Environment Stupid Bed Clothes Skins Appearance Stupidity Companion Behaviour Short Life Stupid Ideas Stupid Decision Stupid Movie

Author:Michael Bassey

“We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision.”

Decision Amount

Author:Charlie Munger

“Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.”

“A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.”

Art Social Natural Decision Pay Attention Music Is Response Hearing Motivated Classical Music Prestige Classic Music

Book:Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

Source: Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

“Defeat only happens when you make the decision to stop trying. Because determination works. Steady forward motion, even if it's just a step per week, gets you there. So keep moving, even if it's only a little some weeks.”

Ifs Trying Littles Happens Moving Decision Steps Week Determination Defeat Steady Keep Moving Stop Trying Forward Motion

Author:Ken Evoy

“Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.”

Persons Moments Choices Force Decision Fate Greatness Exercise Determine Great Person Predetermined Predestined

Book:The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools that present a potential opportunity, a young man or a young woman has to be happy with their decision. If they are unhappy, then their whole four years of college are going to be some of the most miserable memories of their lifetime.”

Ifs Men Years Children Whole School Young Opportunity Memories Decision Four College Our Children Lifetime Lists Unhappy Miserable Young Man Four Years Young Women

Author:Craig Biggio

“I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.”

Thinking Knows Littles Hard Play Wanted Decision Talking Emotional Percent Hardest Our Family Accomplished Hardest Thing Nhl Hard Decision

Author:Chris Chelios

“Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.”

Self Belief Ability Decision Self Confidence

Book:Handbook for Preclears

Source: Handbook for Preclears

“What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.”

Important Decision Our Time Important Decisions Decisions We Make

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.”

Decision Tomorrow Tough Painful Obliged Manageable

Author:Nicos Anastasiades

“Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.”

Would Be Interest Decision Taken Israel Dues Supreme Pakistan Parliament National Interests Consultation

Author:Shaukat Aziz

“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.”

Trying Problem Together Jobs Three Process Decision Careers Taken Pieces Week Amount Flow Productions Finance Cash Only Time Inadequate Preps Cash Flow

Author:Joe Johnston

“My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.”

Done Life Is Goal Decision Regret Life Goal Don't Regret Don't Regret Anything

Author:Jake Pavelka

“It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.”

Needs Feels Decision Views Clear Dangerous Good Decision Clear View

Author:Eli Pariser

“When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.”

Thinking Should Song Language Decision Audience Concern Decided Communicate Translate Should I Good Decision Scooters

Author:PSY

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