- 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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I missed a lot of decisions. At the time of making such a decision, there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made the final decision to become a professional wrestler because I was able to look at Sting and what he was able to do inside and outside the ring.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never allowed other people's expectations to determine whatever course I took. I had to reach a decision about what I was going to do based on what I felt inside myself.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
City is a fantastic club. Not only the players but the manager and all the staff welcomed me in the best way possible. I would say it was the best decision I could ever have made.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every decision of strategic importance needs to go through the relevant institutions, certainly the sale of submarines to neighboring countries.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020