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“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”

“None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.”

Important Universe Decision Ignorance Nothingness Important Decisions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.”

Decision Stage Finals Endless Outcomes Rebirth Progression Completion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very low levels at the top, where we stripped away regulations. So the result of that was not a more dynamic economy, but a more unequal society. We tried the experiment of trickle-down. A third of a century later, we can say fairly definitively that it was a failure.”

Decision Levels Results Economy Century Particular Taxes Lows Thirds Rate Experiments Inequality Regulation Low Level Trickle Down

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.”

Thinking Should States Hands Decision Federalist

Author:John McCain

“A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.”

People Knows Should Decision Therapy

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.”

Way Reading Decision Careers Media Scripts

Author:Jessica Pare

“It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school.”

School Decision Irrational

Author:David Brooks

“It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.”

People Made Decision Easier Responsible Being Responsible

Author:John Travolta

“In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty can come at any time. You stand ready to put your lives on hold and answer that call, ... And you did so because you love your state and your country. America appreciates your courageous decision to serve. Together with your comrades in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Reserves, you are showing that patriotism is alive and well in Idaho and throughout the United States.”

“Between two stools one sits on the ground.”

Two Decision Stools

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.”

Decision Evidence Occasions Slender

Book:Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford

Source: Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford

“It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.”

Want Difficult Chance Decision Situation Reflection Difficult Decisions

Author:John Henry Newman

“All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.”

Values Decision Exercise Decision Making Clarifying

Author:Tony Robbins

“Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.”

Persons Decision Poor Judgement

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.”

Trying Found Decision Nice Circumstances Accidents Heroic Doing Good Lambs Stealth

Author:William James

“To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.”

Giving Decision Party Disputes

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.”

World Needs Giving Trying Leadership Decision Leader Information Tools Strategy Insight Around The World Employee World Leader

Book:Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

“The soul of dispatch is decision.”

Soul Decision

Book:Table talk

Source: Table talk

“How dangerous can false reasoning prove!”

Decision Dangerous Prove Reasoning

Author:Sophocles

“All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.”

Made Decision Ignorance Evidence Insufficient

Book:In Her Day

Source: In Her Day

“History is a stern judge.”

Decision History Judging

Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva

“In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.”

Needs Should Important Choices Decision Decision Making Personal Life Making Decisions Making Choices Decisions Made Important Decisions Pros And Cons Personal Decisions

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.”

Looks Country Helping Decision Economy Skins Stronger Employment

Author:Christine Lagarde

“I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.”

Has Beens House Decision Lord Easier Reform Stride House Of Lords

Author:Neil Kinnock

“The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.”

People Kind Given Decision Plans Areas Adaptability

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.”

Problem Decision Communication Decision Making Fragments Coordination

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.”

Important Social Process Decision Produce Majors Function Institutions Mere Backgrounds Decision Making Minors Supplements Important Decisions Decision Making Process Social Capital

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.”

People Needs Jobs Ability Decision Tough Boss Tough Decisions

Author:Charles Kennedy

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.”

“You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.”

Knows Evil Change Decision One Thing Sand Good And Evil Grain Pebbles Grains Of Sand

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.”

Moments Choices Decision Path Happenings Practicality Decisions We Make

Author:Jim Carrey

“Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.”

Doe Play Asks Games Decision Common Impossible Common Sense

Author:Wendell Phillips

“History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.”

Decision Leader Generations Week Judging

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.”

Persons Home Belief Decision Taken Violence Hatred Secretary Advocating Statutes Fostering Deportation

Author:Tony Blair

“Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.”

World Decision Limits Logic

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.”

Decision Danger Alternatives Puzzled

Author:Richard Livingstone

“No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.”

Knows Men Way Light Decision Odd Sat Uncertain Assembly

Book:Organization in Daily Life: An Essay

Source: Organization in Daily Life: An Essay

“I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?”

Looks Littles Persons Form Values Girl Decision Opinion Angry Average Chastity Average Person

Book:Letters to Susan

Source: Letters to Susan

“Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.”

People Ifs Men Want Should Mean Ends Shows Values Decision Economics Tasks Ultimate Aim Chosen Judgement Definite Scope Theoretical Attainment Valuation

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.”

Knows Humans Enough Problem Action Earth Decision Information Policy Majors Crisis Human Life Threatening Major Problems Rest Of Life

Author:George Wald

“Each brushstroke is a decision.”

Choices Decision

Book:Robert Motherwell

Source: Robert Motherwell

“In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility.”

Real Home Simple Decision Silence Responsibility Share Middle Cold Consequence Finals Soldier Over It Engines Flags Senators Reminders Coffins American Flag American Soldier Cargo Aluminum

Author:John F. Kerry

“Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.”

Giving Doe Order Choices Asks Decision Taken Maximum Pondering

Author:John Cleese

“Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.”

Ifs Made Decision Doubt Efficient Efficiency Correctness

Author:John Cleese

“Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.”

Heart Moments Realizing Decision Painting Demand Weakness Difficulty Steel Finishing

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.”

Facts Faith Decision Logic Cease

Author:Edith Hamilton

“In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin”

World Heart Long Ends Running Decision Weakness Gods Will Ruins Obedience Fixed Long Runs Wickedness Wrecks Deformity Obedience To God

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.”

Years Firsts Hard Given Challenges Decision Growing Fronts Promise Shapes Green Edges Horizon Discovering Hard Things

Author:Howard Thurman

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