- Evil
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- 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
- Chief Executive
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.
- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't affect my authority if I change my stance on something. If I have to reconsider a decision, I will.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.
- Enrolled
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and went the first day. I didn't understand a thing that was being said and dropped the class. I really regret that decision. I should have stuck it out and learned the basics of accounting, but I took the easy way out.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will have to make a decision, as we go into new environments outside of earth, whether we want to drag along with us all our pathogens. We can, or we can't - it's up to us - but I consider that part of genome engineering is how we interact with the huge part of our genome which is our microbiome.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff.
- Haste
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- Nov 07, 2020
My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
- Secret
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- Nov 07, 2020