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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
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be ashamed of the work you've done. You make a decision, and then you have to live with the consequences.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaving Impact was a very difficult decision, as I had six months left on a very lucrative and talent-friendly contract. Anthem lived up to that contract and always treated me with the utmost respect as a businessman and a person.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Ralph Fernandes, was a model before he became an interior designer. He was very supportive of my decision to become a model and then an actress.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
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- Nov 07, 2020
So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers. I have a salary as member of parliament. I don't want a double salary. So it was a very important decision.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played a lot at Bayer Leverkusen. I played in the Champions League and in the Bundesliga. I have played a lot of games, and it was a very good decision to go to Leverkusen.
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- Nov 07, 2020