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"As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there."
"Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues."
"Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay."
"I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do."
"The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me."
"You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward."
"I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately."
"I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with."
"The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to "broadcast" negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words, for the reason that he understands that "like attracts like" and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers."
"The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision."
"You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions"
"I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors."
"...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think."
"understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled."
"Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured."
"It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!"
"In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct."
"The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did."
"It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no."
"I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else."
