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• 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.

  Peter Mandelson

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in People, Information

• The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race – which meant slowing down – or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.

  Danica Patrick

  Topics in Decision

• With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

  Roger Mahony

  Topics in Decision, Respect

• The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

  Tabare Vazquez

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Problem

• Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

  Barber B. Conable Jr.

  Topics in Decision

• With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.

  David Brian Cone

  Topics in Decision

• I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

  Phil Hartman

  Topics in Decision

• Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

  John Ricardo I Cole

  Topics in Decision

• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it’s very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  E. P. Thompson

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in United States, Effective

• Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that’s embedded in the work.

  Chuck Close

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Record, Process

• If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better.

  Peter Finch

  Topics in Decision

• Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions.

  Terry Gross

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Public

• Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

  Peter Thiel

  Topics in Business, Decision

• My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I’ve made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

  Colin Hanks

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Interested, Wanted, Extremely

• The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they’ve sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

  Tony Greig

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Peoples

• 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.

  David Herbert Donald

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Self

• I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people – don’t tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable – one negative comment could knock you off course.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Decision

• For me, romance isn’t an over-the-top act. It’s someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I’m making the wrong decision, he’ll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

  Thora Birch

  Topics in Decision, Honesty

  Tags in Romance

• I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Topics in Decision

• My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

  Thomas E. Dewey

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