"Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are."
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"We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge stylistic decisions to change, we're just trying to follow the song. More and more, we let the song lead us - we don't try and put the song into a structure of our taste or our fashion."
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"In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list."
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"The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way."
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"The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior."
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"If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you’ll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too."
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"Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?"
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"The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead."
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"So for decisions about happiness you essentially need at least both and probably even more than that, you probably also need to do analysis that doesn't involve yourself to get at the answer of what will make you happy in 10 years."
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"People will make worse financial decisions for them if they're choosing from a lot of options than if they're choosing from a few options. If they have more options they're more likely to avoid stocks and put all their money in money market accounts, which doesn't even grow at the rate of inflation."
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"Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making."
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"The best decision I ever made was to marry Dave."
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"And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there."
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"Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't a good thing in some ways."
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"In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track."
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"Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making."
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"When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from."
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"Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right."
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"To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision."
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"No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back."
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