“You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.” KnowsWorldWantImportantRealDecisionMessagesImportant ThingsMeaningful Author:Oprah Winfrey
“I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.” ThinkingKidsDecisionRocksMessagesAbsolutesSakeRebellionPunkQuestioningPunk RockMaking Decisions Author:Mark Hoppus
“The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right to asylum needs to be made in Brussels.” NeedsMadeDecisionMessagesImperativesAsylumsBrussels Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.” ThinkingWayWantWholeHandsProcessDecisionViewsOpinionJudgingMessagesElectionIndependenceComplicatedAccountabilityVotersMainstreamRecallsPublic OpinionTriggersJudicialReinsLegitimacyJeopardizeUnpopular Decisions Author:Deborah Rhode
“I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.” ThinkingShouldUseDecisionMessagesIndependenceMechanismRecallsReluctantJudicialUnpopular Decisions Author:Deborah Rhode
“The next big decision [of Donald Trump], chief of staff. And the two names talked about the most, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus. Both allies, but they send quite a different message.” TwoDifferentBigsNextNamesDecisionTrumpMessagesChiefsAlliesStaffBig DecisionsChief Of Staff Author:George Stephanopoulos
“The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.” NeedsTryingLooksPoliticalDecisionTechnologyMessagesScrutinize Author:Evgeny Morozov