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"No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads."
"God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom."
"For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question."
"I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education."
"Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window"
"I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know."
"My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go."
"I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff."
"Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor."
"What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them."
"To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions."
"Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved."
"Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear."
"Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision."
"For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me."
"Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions."
"Don't be afraid of making decisions."
"If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions."
"An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it."
"Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them."
