“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.” IfsMenYearsChildrenWholeSchoolYoungOpportunityMemoriesDecisionFourCollegeOur ChildrenLifetimeListsUnhappyMiserableYoung ManFour YearsYoung Women Author:Craig Biggio
“I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.” ThinkingYearsThreeDecisionTakenFourDesignRationalLogicalFour YearsGiftedAnalyzingPros And ConsRational Decisions Author:Carlos Ghosn
“That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.” YearsPersonsCharacterLastsLosesDecisionBreakFourSeriousPerspectiveDisasterAbsurdBarackAbandonInsightfulFour YearsAdmirableComposure Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.” WantWellsHardWantedArtistCoursesDecisionFourSolutionsScriptsCurrentsProfessionSomething NewWornUncertainCoinsGreat ArtGreat ArtistExhaustionEmilyUsage Author:Agnes de Mille
“I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.” YearsChildrenMadeWould BeDecisionFourCostHusbandGratefulTrialsDragExesDivorcedSmall ChildMediationEx Husband Author:Jane Green
“TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.” IfsYearsDecisionFiveFourWeekTvsSixSeriesFilmmakerTv Series Author:Marc Blucas
“Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.” FoundForceWaterDecisionPovertyFourRiskSecurityDiseaseHundredUniversalThreatClimateClimate ChangeIncludingTerrorismInequalityAddressesMakersDiverseFamineLoomingDecision MakersFresh Water Author:Margaret Catley-Carlson