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"Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence."
"Maybe we will get to this point and reach a decision one way or the other with 'Human cloning is acceptable,' but I doubt that it is ever going to happen for 'It is morally permissible to eat shrimp' or with the general formula 'Adultery is wrong,' whose intended extension is again very unclear."
"So much of what I've learned, so much of what's good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right ones."
"Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him."
"We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world."
"Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it all."
"We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision."
"Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances."
"Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination."
"I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always."
"In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live."
"Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self."
"She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself."
"When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome."
"Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone."
"Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees."
"Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision."
"All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise."
"It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life."
"Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale."
