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 discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.
~By Rex Hunt ~
I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.
~By Graham Nash ~
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
~By Ed Harris ~
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 ~
Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.
~By Puff Daddy ~
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
~By Sam Rayburn ~
We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
~By George W. Bush ~
When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.
~By Ruud van Nistelrooy ~
I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.
~By Joss Whedon ~
My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
~By Sue Grafton ~
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.
~By Peter Orszag ~
The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.
~By Terrence Howard ~
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
~By Adam Osborne ~
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 ~
Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.
~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.
~By Jim Bunning ~
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.
~By David Boies ~
When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
~By Ben Nelson ~
We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.
~By Henry W. Kendall ~
I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
~By Gladys Knight ~
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
~By Charles Schumer ~
It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
~By Jesse Helms ~
I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
~By Greg Egan ~
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 ~
We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.
~By John W. Snow ~
We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.
~By Corey Feldman ~
When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
~By John Mellencamp ~
Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.
~By Helen Wills Moody ~
Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.
~By Justin Bieber ~
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
~By Marcel Proust ~
We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.
~By Howard Baker ~
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 ~
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
~By Grantland Rice ~
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 ~
In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
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 ~
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 ~
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.
~By Michael Schiavo ~
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 ~
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
~By Tony Robbins ~
You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.
~By Adam Rich ~
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
~By Antony Jay ~
Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
~By Helen Garner ~
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
~By Jodi Rell ~
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
~By Shimon Peres ~
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
~By Don Bluth ~
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 ~
Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.
~By George Carey ~
They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.
~By Kelly Preston ~
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
~By Edward de Bono ~
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
~By Charles Schumer ~
The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.
~By Alexander Kluge ~
The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.
~By Helen Wills Moody ~
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
~By Roy E. Disney ~
If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.
~By John Harrison ~
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 ~
What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.
~By Paul Ryan ~
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 ~
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
~By Christian Bale ~
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.
~By John Hutton ~
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 ~
It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
~By Robert Half ~
Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
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 ~
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 ~
You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
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 ~
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
~By Henri Queuille ~
Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.
~By Duncan Hunter ~
I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
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 ~
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
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 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 ~
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