Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.
Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.
Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.
I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.
History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.
At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. Above and beyond anything I ever did in my life, I wanted to be happy.
Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
Whatever I read about Emergency as a part and process of my film, I can say, as a citizen of a democratic country called India, I am certainly not 'for' Emergency, a decision that snatched away the normalcy of human life for 21 months.
It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.
