“ Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. ”
- William Strunk Jr.- Copy
“ Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
“ All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. ”
- Frederick Speakman- Copy
“ Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. ”
- Harold Sydney Geneen- Copy
“ When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision. ”
- Lucius C. Falkland- Copy
“ When you don't know what you are doing, you don't know when to quit. ”
- George Foster- Copy
“ When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
“ No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
“ Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
“ Give your decision, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong. ”
- Lord Mansfield- Copy
“ It was his decision, not the Indians' decision. I think he made the right decision. ”
- Bob Wickman- Copy
“ When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ”
- I. F. Stone- Copy
“ No decision has been made. We have no authority, and we don't expect to have any authority. We're simply a fact-finding committee. ”
- John Marshall- Copy
“ If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision. ”
- Leo Szilard- Copy
“ We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action. ”
- Louis L’Amour- Copy
“ Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it. ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
“ The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. ”
- Rush Limbaugh- Copy
“ You cannot bring in a verdict that the defendant is a little bit guilty. ”
- Donald R. Cressey- Copy
“ I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that. ”
- Edwin Edwards- Copy
“ I've applied to the humor commission for a license to have humor in the book. I haven't been given permission so far. I'm awaiting their verdict. ”
- Rupert Holmes- Copy
“ All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
“ 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. ”
- B. F. Skinner- Copy
“ 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- Copy
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