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“I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.”

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Author:Robin Cook

“The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.”

Has Beens War States Choices President Leadership Decision United United States Policy Cost Iraq Disaster Occupation Civilians President Bush Strategic Incompetent

Author:John Olver

“The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.”

Writing Made Reading Decision Reader Narrative Prose Poetry Is Verses Bedtime

Author:Robert Morgan

“When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".”

Feels Choices Decision Focus Versus Shackles

Author:Martha Beck

“We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.”

People Made Reality Decision Modern Battle Demand Wake Up Responsible Available Insane Former Our Time Makers Ancestor Irresponsible Axes Armament Decision Makers

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.”

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Author:Herbert Simon

“Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufﬁciently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.”

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Author:Herbert Simon

“God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when it’s just him and me in a hotel room, with no one to pray for, no one to preach to. When it is just two people in a room, that’s where you learn. That’s where you learn his heartbeat. That’s where you learn the presence. That’s where you learn the voice. It’s in the moments when nobody is watching, nobody is evaluating how good you’re doing. When it is just you and him.”

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Author:Bill Johnson

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act!”

“It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.”

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Author:William Pollard

“Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.”

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Author:Kevin James

“When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.”

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Author:John Lubbock

“Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.”

Challenges Decision Majors Decision Making

Author:Les Brown

“What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even our ministers, would be appointed by harlots, for money; and their judgments, decrees, and decisions, be sold to repay themselves, or, perhaps, to procure the smiles of profligate females.”

Said Would Be America Decision Virtue Judging Judgment Female Manners Ministers Governors Representatives Senators Piety Decree Havoc Harlots

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of

“Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“Make every decision as if you owned the company.”

Ifs Decision Company

Book:Further Up the Organization

Source: Further Up the Organization

“By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.”

People Decision Grace Salvation Presses Fruit Grace Of God Damnation Pluck

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.”

Knows School Names Parent Can Do Realizing Decision Roles Teacher Promise Members Our Children Best Things Boards Best Teacher School Board Board Members

Author:Mark Kennedy

“Draw your line in the sand. Make your decision now and start taking action to really live your dream. By not taking bold steps to live your dream, not only are you missing out on fully living, but the world is missing out on the greatness you have to offer. Be bold!”

“Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.”

Problem Courses Decision Dangerous Economics Bases Rational Decision Making Slopes Undermining Rational Decisions

Author:Brian Cox

“I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.”

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Author:John Piper

“You can do anything you decide to do.”

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Author:Amelia Earhart

“Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.”

Ifs Lines Decision Player Coaches Violent Managers Umpires Profane Coaches And Players

Author:Jim Evans

“Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.”

Knows Years Helping Decision Careers League Minors Umpires Prudent

Author:Jim Evans

“You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.”

“Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.”

People Made Decision Talent

Book:This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value: A Dilbert Book

Source: This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value: A Dilbert Book

“The one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision everyday.”

Way Decision Everyday Appropriate

Book:Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World

Source: Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World

“Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.”

Prayer Decision Worry Praying

Book:Breaking the Worry Habit...Forever!: God's Plan for Lasting Peace of Mind

Source: Breaking the Worry Habit...Forever!: God's Plan for Lasting Peace of Mind

“I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.”

Mean Decision Balance Tough Financial Budgets Collapse Verge Tough Decisions Financial Collapse

Author:Gary Johnson

“At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.”

Needs Giving Writing Faces Decision Pages Down And Sticks Finals Deadline

Book:The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist

Source: The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist

“We cannot deny that our decision today will have an impact on the ability of law enforcement to combat crime. Cell phones have become important tools in facilitating coordination and communication among members of criminal enterprises, and can provide valuable incriminating information about dangerous criminals. Privacy comes at a cost.”

“What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.”

Doe Ends Care Decision Boxes Checks Budgets Makers Software Users User Experience Decision Makers Catering Allocation Could Care Less

Author:Salman Khan

“There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.”

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Author:Daniel Webster

“No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.”

Thinking Choices Wealth Decision Greater Creation Destruction Innovation

Author:Robert Heller

“The decision to leave [Iraq] should be based solely on the judgment of the combatant commanders on the ground who say, "My Iraqi counterparts can now handle this particular area of the country on their own with minimum American support or with no American support." When they can do that, we should leave.”

Should Country Can Do Decision Support Particular Judgment Areas Iraq Handle Minimum Commanders Counterparts

Author:Duncan Hunter

“You always, I think, debate with yourself about whether or not you made the right decision. And you have to then give the person that you’re working for - in my instance, the president - your best judgment based on your understanding of the facts, but also the calculus you use to make a determination about what’s the best way to go forward.”

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Author:John O. Brennan

“God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we're going to be through our free choices, what kind of action we are going to do through our decisions.”

Kind Action Choices Decision Levels Roots Causality Free Choice

Author:Francis George

“When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.”

People Film Decision Taken Away From You

Author:Ben Barnes

“Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.”

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Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

“I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.”

Kind Happens Decision Careers Blue Busy Developing Spontaneous Screenplays

Author:Joe Wright

“Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have directed the story earlier in the book. It happens, it's called adapting a book, you have to make decisions about things. It's not unusual having to cut out scenes.”

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Author:Daniel Craig

“In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.”

Thinking Made Decision

Author:Julia Roberts

“My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by.”

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Author:Glenn Close

“Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better.”

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Author:Laura San Giacomo

“I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.”

Thinking Want Would Be Force Decision Opinion Like You Driving Idiot

Author:Tom Hardy

“You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done. It's not even necessarily vulnerability, always, but it's an earnestness, a genuine desire to actually do the right thing, but then still make really misguided, stupid decisions along the way.”

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Author:Ed Helms

“I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.”

Feelings Decision Refuse Practicals Practicality Nausea

Author:Francesco Clemente

“The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme and the sense of what the film is about, all those decisions start to make sense. But to find that truth within it, you have to limit your possibilities and limit your choices. That's where this visual language grows out of.”

Knows Way Film Choices Language Grows Decision Figures Possibility Directors Limits Make Sense Theme Visuals

Author:Darren Aronofsky