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"Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself"
"It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions"
"All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go."
"Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference."
"You shared one of the most intimate things that ever happened to you - falling in love with someone who wasn't brave enough to love you back. Your relieving yourself of your 'secret' is as much about wanting to honestly connect as it is about exhibition. We are all made better by your decision to share publicly."
"Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what's happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear."
"The first step to forgiveness is the desire to do it, no matter how you feel toward the person who hurt you. Then you make the decision to do it which means it's a firm decision that won't change when your feelings change. The next step is to depend on the Holy Spirit to help you do what you've decided to do."
"My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future."
"Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another."
"Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again."
"The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions."
"Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible."
"Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous."
"The only certainty is uncertainty"
"The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions."
"The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets."
"The wavering mind is but a base possession."
"We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy."
"There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing."
"Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is."
