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That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.
I always said that VAR is a very important tool on objective and important decisions.
Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.
Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.
Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'
We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.
We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.
A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.
Our hiring is almost completely built around just going through someone's life story, and we look for moments when they had to make important decisions, and we go deep on those.
I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.
With Eli - and all of my sons - I wanted to impress that as they grow older, they are going to have important decisions to make and at decision time, you can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.
Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.
One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.
A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
I was never a comic book guy. I like the movies when I see them, especially the origin stories. I never felt like I could be on the set, at 3 o'clock in the morning, tired, with 10 important decisions to make, and know, intuitively, what the story needs. For me, I'd be copycatting and not inventing. I've never said yes to one.
Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.