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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our shared historical experiences led myself and Mitterrand to the decision that we must do everything to prevent further wars.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually hire people who have very exemplary work experience. Where they went to school, or what degree they have, really has no play into the hiring decision.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
- Conscious Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I turned 21, I started losing weight - again, a normal thing for any girl my age. I did not take a conscious decision to reduce my weight.
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- Nov 07, 2020