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Decision quotes

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“Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“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.” Henry Kissinger, White House Years

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Make a decision and watch your life move forward.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.” Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

“soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they’ve been given.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare...” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?” George Orwell, Animal Farm

“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed through — usually with relief that the choice was made.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

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Oprah Winfrey (1)
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Stephenie Meyer (1)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1)
The Alchemist (1)
The Art of War (1)
White House Years (1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (1)
What I Know For Sure (1)
Ender's Game (1)
Animal Farm (1)
Oh, The Places You'll Go! (1)
American Gods (1)
Twilight (1)
Tarzan of the Apes (1)