#decisions

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#clout #commission #control #decisions #developing

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered. ↗

— Marvin Bower

#considered #decisions #facts #objectively #should

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#care #company #decisions #health #health care

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#does #figured #get #into #investment

I haven't always made the right decisions. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#decisions #haven #i #made #right

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. ↗

— Rene Dubos

#environment #himself #his #man #shape

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. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#chairman #control #control freak #decisions #freak