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Decision Quotes

The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine.

– Werner Heisenberg

My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else – I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back.

– Sascha Radetsky

If you want to post pictures of yourself online, that’s your decision, but you should understand the implications.

– Suzan DelBene

No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any more than soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan wanted to make what proved to be the wrong decision in a shoot-don’t-shoot situation. Those decisions, even if justified, live with you forever, believe me.

– Tom Cotton

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.

– William J. Clinton

When I started ‘CNN,’ I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn’t going to come from me.

– Ted Turner

I made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: ‘Get Angelo Dundee. He’s the right complexion with the right connection.’ He knew boxing. Our relationship was so genuine, so sincere.

– Sugar Ray Leonard

I made a very poor decision in my first marriage. I know God’s forgiven me.

– Scott DesJarlais

This might be controversial, but sometimes I think that being happy is a decision. I don’t mean that in a way to diminish clinical depression. But on a more day-to-day level.

– Will Arnett

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can’t be told that I’m wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn’t to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it’s who has that last decision.

– Trevor Nunn

There’s the movie you write, there’s the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you’re getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that’s actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

– Tate Taylor

People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to ‘Rookie’ magazine. But it wasn’t a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.

– Tavi Gevinson

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren’t… But I must live my life.

– Thomas Hearns

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

– Thomas Hardy

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

– Victor Hugo

The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.

– Safra A. Catz

The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.

– Snoop Dogg

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

– William Pollard

If I’m honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did – we all did – but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, ‘If I’m going to sing, I’m going to have to do it solo.’ Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me.

– Shane Filan

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

– Thomas Dewey

Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they’ve set.

– Tony Cardenas

For the rich, it’s not about getting more stuff. It’s about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

– T. Harv Eker

I think each negotiation should be based on what’s the best decision – taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.

– Tony La Russa

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

– William O. Douglas

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you’re weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

– Tony Blair

Pakistan has not recognized Israel… any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

– Shaukat Aziz

It’s not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

– Tiffeny Milbrett

For me, romance isn’t an over-the-top act. It’s someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I’m making the wrong decision, he’ll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

– Thora Birch

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

– Scott Cook

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they’re not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

– Silvan Shalom

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