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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. -- Mike Krzyzewski
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. -- Edward de Bono
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. -- Jim Rohn
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. -- Wilma Mankiller
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. -- Thomas Sowell
My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems. -- Pope Francis
I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience. -- Joss Whedon
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.' -- Sandra Bullock
Don't be afraid of making decisions. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
You cannot make progress without making decisions. -- Jim Rohn
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. -- Roy E. Disney
Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art -- John Gruber
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. -- Harold Geneen
Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions. -- Alfie Kohn
Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions. -- Judith M Bardwick
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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. -- Golda Meir
People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes. -- Noah Weinberg
I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience. -- Bill W.
I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse. -- Sienna Miller
I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge. -- Mackenzie Davis
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group. -- George W. Bush
I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. -- Kevin Costner
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. -- Edward Felten
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual. -- Noel Clarke
The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis. -- Roger Goodell
Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game. -- John Carmack
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered. -- Barney Frank
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion -- Mike Krzyzewski
Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over who fights them. I sincerely believe that reinstating the draft would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation. -- Charles B. Rangel
So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions. -- Dallas Willard
What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play. -- Jonny Greenwood
Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster. -- Kathryn Minshew
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. -- Mark Hoppus
While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye. -- Mariella Frostrup
Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin . We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation. -- Eric Hoffer
What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions. -- Jim Yong Kim
It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry. -- Willie Mason
Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
I enjoy making the decisions. -- Stuart Pearce
He does not however postpone making decisions. -- Paulo Coelho
Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity. -- Geraldine Laybourne
Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions. -- Paulo Coelho
There are so many decisions in making a movie. -- Rick Baker
What I find really difficult is making career decisions. -- Paul Walker
Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom. -- James Taranto
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. -- Peter Drucker
I think people are frightened of women making big decisions. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage. -- Michael Hyatt
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions. -- Pauline Oliveros
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. -- Mark Twain
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions. -- John Engler
Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions. -- John C. Maxwell
As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions. -- Hetty King
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. -- Barbara Boxer
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry. -- Carly Fiorina
Using the 'military decision-making process' is extremely valuable when making policy decisions. -- Joe Heck
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. -- Harold Geneen
The key is being with the right people and making the right decisions. -- Sebastian Janikowski
I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions. -- Paul Walker
Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese. -- Peter Drucker
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions. -- Lara St. John
Have the courage to take ownership of your life by making your own decisions. -- Ken Poirot
A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly. -- Edwin Louis Cole
It's amazing how much research has gone into making some of the worst decisions. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans. -- George W. Bush
The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions. -- Clarence Thomas
Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant. -- Rands
Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made. -- Andy Stanley
Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions. -- Stuart Pearce
We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families. -- Dan Lipinski
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones -- Bob Riley
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. -- Don Bluth
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones. -- Bob Riley
Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones. -- Warren Buffett
The science of psychology lies within your own head making complex decisions and showing different attitudes -- Mohammad Ali V
You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made. -- Simon Pegg
We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them. -- Marco Rubio
Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time. -- Michelle Williams
My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. -- George W. Bush
Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me. -- Gerry Harvey
All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions. -- Myron Scholes
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security. -- Randy Neugebauer
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. -- Corliss Lamont
Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. -- Thomas J. Watson
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. -- W. Allen Wallis
I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions. -- Seymour Cray
Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever. -- Karrine Steffans
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after. -- Bill Vaughan
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making. -- Marvin Bower
There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions. -- Michael Bloomberg
I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything. -- Rick Santorum
If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you. -- Andrew Mason
As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with. -- Rob Lowe
The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions. -- Dick Armey
Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. -- Liane Moriarty
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. -- Bill Forsyth
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. -- Chuck Schumer
The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning. -- Sam Allardyce
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. -- Chuck Schumer
Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself. -- Andy Stanley
What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action. -- Tony Robbins
Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl -- Eoin Colfer
Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process. -- Ronald Reagan
To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others. -- Tim Ferriss
I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions. -- Gene Weingarten
Shall I call the others back in?" He nodded. "Why ask me? It's all of you who are making the decisions. -- John Flanagan
When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure. -- Tony Krantz
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one. -- Twyla Tharp
We Shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women -- Barack Obama
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. -- David Frum
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? -- Lewis H. Lapham
If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions. -- Daymond John
Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions. -- Elizabeth Rodriguez

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