I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
~By Rex Stout ~
If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
~By Karen Duffy ~
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
~By Charles Schumer ~
That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.
~By Scott McCallum ~
In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
~By Kevin Costner ~
A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.
~By Chris Christie ~
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
~By Joseph A. Schumpeter ~
I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.
~By Dennis C. Blair ~
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
~By Dave Rowntree ~
The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
~By Ralph Neas ~
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
~By Tony Robbins ~
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
~By Anita Brookner ~
And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.
~By Lloyd Cutler ~
If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.
~By Elena Kagan ~
I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.
~By Shannon Elizabeth ~
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
~By David Attenborough ~
But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
~By Bob Riley ~
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
~By Brian Eno ~
Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.
~By Howard Coble ~
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.
~By Primo Angeli ~
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
~By Ed Harris ~
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
~By Frank Butler ~
I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
~By Dan Abrams ~
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
~By Kiana Tom ~
We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
~By Jodi Rell ~
I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.
~By John Le Carre ~
Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
I haven't always made the right decisions.
~By George Steinbrenner ~
Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
~By Don Bluth ~
But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
~By Merton Miller ~
The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
~By Sam Rayburn ~
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
~By Lara St. John ~
I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.
~By George W. Bush ~
I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
~By Mike Johanns ~
The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.
~By Anders Fogh Rasmussen ~
Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
~By Laura Bush ~
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
~By Peter Drucker ~
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.
~By Julie Nixon Eisenhower ~
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
~By Golda Meir ~
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
~By Gerhard Schroeder ~
Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.
~By Jim Bunning ~
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
~By Gary Johnson ~
President Obama is making the tough decisions to get our country going in the right direction, has taken our economy from job losses to 15 straight months of job gains, cut taxes 26 times, and focused like a laser on getting the middle class back on its feet while those campaigning to replace him have failed to show they can lead on these issues.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
~By Christie Hefner ~
It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.
~By Dido Armstrong ~
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
~By Sophocles ~
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.
~By Birch Bayh ~
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
~By Jena Malone ~
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
~By Norbert Wiener ~
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
~By Bernard Law Montgomery ~
In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.
~By Mike Johanns ~
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
~By B. F. Skinner ~
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.
~By Kirsten Dunst ~
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
~By Rex Stout ~
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.
~By Robert Teeter ~
They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.
~By Kelly Preston ~
This administration in Washington... clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make essential decisions for every American in every area. That mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American.
~By Rick Perry ~
Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
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