- Nov 07, 2020
Decision Quotes
The weight of a choice, before and after it's made.
This page collects decision quotes spanning military campaigns, a wartime scientific effort that ultimately went nowhere, and the personal calculus behind everyday choices, like skipping a workout for a role. One entry recalls the internal tug-of-war before founding Teach For America. See our Choice for a closer look at that moment of deciding.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was an important and daring decision to open Eletrobras capital to private investors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think women have to be able to choose... sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they're the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.
- Court Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can.
- Principal
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the postwar period, Americans turned away from quality as the principal goal of manufacturing and made cost the principal goal. Japanese, restructuring their companies, made exactly the opposite decision.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020