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“The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.”

Made Use Government Political Decision Cities Military Perception Bases Nuclear Enormous Bombs Atoms Arsenal Atom Bomb

Book:A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

“We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.”

People Leadership Decision Perception Associates Decisiveness Indecisive

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.”

Made Government Difficult Decision Deals Company Products Needed Findings Perception Sells Impression Software Hardware Disclosure Snowden Encryption

Author:Michael Morell

“The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.”

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Author:David L. Bazelon

“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution.”

“I accept that friends of ours have decided that the President's non-strike has somehow impacted perceptions of us. But I believe they are dead wrong and I think the critics are dead wrong, and here's why. The President [Barack Obama] made his decision to strike. He announced his decision to strike publicly. And the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should be shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. It was a big decision; I didn't take it lightly, or in ignorance of its consequences. It's a big commitment for a country to give, but I believed it was the right thing to do.”

Giving Should Country Bigs Games Decision Security Position Ignorance Perception Commitment Consequence Threat Shoulders Things To Do Right Thing Britain Altered Big Decisions Game Changers

Author:Tony Blair

“I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.”

Desire Interest Decision Perception Wake Up Worried

Author:David Gordon Green

“It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people. Not only that, but in the case of climate change - a scientific issue with strong moral implications and difficult decisions to be made - it's essential to connect the science to our values. And for many of us, our values come from our faith.”

People Spiritual Values Strong Difficult Decision Common Moral Perception Scientist Climate Change Science And Religion

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made.”

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Author:John Crowley

“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”

Ifs Important Strong Decision Views Perception Weak Sight Strategy Procrastination Business Strategy

Book:A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind

Source: A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind

“We usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves, than with reality.”

Thinking Want Made Reality Desire Decision Views Our Lives Perception Sitting Ultimate Seats Drivers Alas

Author:Dan Ariely

“I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.”

Ifs Thinking Made Would Be Decision Opinion Cases Perception Court Public Opinion Legitimacy

Author:Samuel Alito

“Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do.”

Ifs Men Said Ideas Self Character Wisdom Success Peace Ability Decision Emotion Effects Perception Worthy Reputation Savior Immense Self Perception

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.”

People Thinking Mind Wells Problem Decision Responsibility Cutting Perception Ethics Evidence Philosophical Teeth Decision Making Free Will Rationality

Author:Simon Blackburn