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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no major regrets. I've made the conscious decision not to look at life that way. I always try to learn something - to take something away from the situation.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made the decision I will back Mr. Trump, it's not very complicated. I don't pussyfoot around playing the odds.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before my mother died, I was supposed to go to the local university, where I'd applied early decision. It was the same school my two older sisters had graduated from, which had been the sole criteria for choosing it.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
- Brilliant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020