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Success is to be found not in choosing the right path, but in making the chosen path right.
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Brooke Jefferson
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A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.
Author:
Robert Wise
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Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.
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Dontrelle Willis
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
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Norbert Wiener
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I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.
Author:
Peter Weir
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I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.
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Jim Walton
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I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
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Lech Walesa
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The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
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Tabare Vazquez
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We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
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Fred Thompson
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The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
Author:
Rex Stout
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To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
Author:
Rex Stout
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I haven't always made the right decisions.
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George Steinbrenner
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Sophocles
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New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.
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Jenny Shipley
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And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.
Author:
William Scranton
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But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
Author:
Brent Scowcroft
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It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
Author:
Ridley Scott
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I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
Author:
Charles Schumer
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.
Author:
Mike Rounds
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Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Author:
Tony Robbins
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I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.
Author:
Chuck Robb
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You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.
Author:
Adam Rich
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Author:
Grantland Rice
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
Author:
Simon Pegg
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I enjoy making the decisions.
Author:
Stuart Pearce
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
Author:
Randy Neugebauer
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There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.
Author:
Michael Nesmith
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At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.
Author:
Dick Murphy
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You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
Author:
Rupert Murdoch
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When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest.
Author:
Alonzo Mourning
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Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.
Author:
Helen Moody
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The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.
Author:
Helen Moody
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I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
Author:
Kevin Mitnick
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Author:
Golda Meir
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That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.
Author:
Scott McCallum
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Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Author:
James Mansfield
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Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.
Author:
Jean-Francois Lyotard
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There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
Author:
Rich Lowry
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Author:
Queen Latifah
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During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
Author:
Nguyen Ky
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So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
Author:
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
Author:
Irving Kaufman
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There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
Author:
Mike Johanns
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Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.
Author:
Terrence Howard
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I never make conscious decisions.
Author:
Anthony Hopkins
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You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
Author:
Harri Holkeri
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We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
Author:
Harri Holkeri
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The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.
Author:
Tom Hayden
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It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
Author:
Robert Half
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
Author:
Sue Grafton
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
Author:
Hans Frank
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We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
Author:
Ronald Fisher
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Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
Author:
Carly Fiorina
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As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
Author:
Atom Egoyan
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I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
Author:
Greg Egan
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Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Author:
Rene Dubos
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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Author:
Peter Drucker
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I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.
Author:
Dorothy Denning
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And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.
Author:
Lloyd Cutler
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It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.
Author:
Norm Coleman
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Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
Author:
Morris Cohen
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Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.
Author:
Howard Coble
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Author:
Jimmy Carter
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Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.
Author:
Hodding Carter
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Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
Author:
Frank Butler
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Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.
Author:
Marvin Bower
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Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
Author:
Sidney Blumenthal
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You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.
Author:
Michael Bloomberg
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Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.
Author:
Oksana Baiul
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
Author:
Arthur Ashe
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It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.
Author:
Primo Angeli
