"Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life."
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"When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions."
"Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel."
"Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."
"When you make the decision to become a being of sharing, and practice keeping your thoughts harmonized with Spirit energy on a daily basis, your purpose will not only find you, it will chase after you wherever you go."
"I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life."
"Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere."
"Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger."
"I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs."
"Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul."
"The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments."
"We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive."
"You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions."
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
"A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that."
"The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy."
"Passion is a decision about how we will approach life, before it becomes a feeling!"
"Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions."
"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."
"We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself."