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Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering. -- Jean-Claude Carriere
Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet. -- Umberto Eco
Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do. -- John C. Maxwell
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. -- Steve Jobs
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. -- Aldrich Ames
Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are. -- Robert Pinsky
Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding. -- Michael East
Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about? -- Jane Rosenthal
Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. -- Timothy Noah
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Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about. -- Stephen Sondheim
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime. -- Tony Robbins
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime. -- Tony Robbins
The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal. -- Ina Garten
Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy." "Really? Was that how you quit me? -- Gayle Forman
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block. -- Martin Amis
One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products. -- Walter Isaacson
As Graham, Dodd and Buffett have all said, you should always remember that you don't have to swing at every pitch. You can wait for opportunities that fit your criteria and if you don't find them, patiently wait. Deciding not to act is still a decision. -- Seth Klarman
A human being is a deciding being. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do. -- John Carmack
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. -- Earl Nightingale
You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up. -- Deborra-Lee Furness
Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country. -- Roberta Flack
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. -- David Hockney
A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket. -- Bill Dedman
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. -- Bobby Scott
If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. -- Russell Simmons
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. -- Stephen Covey
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. -- Ronald Reagan
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. -- Orison Swett Marden
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. -- Tom Landry
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter. -- Elizabeth Edwards
I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I'm deciding what to wear, I don't run out of options. I love shopping! -- Virat Kohli
I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump. -- Larry Mullen
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. -- Tony Robbins
If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. -- Russell Simmons
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. -- Frank Shorter
I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. -- Mark Haddon
Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet. -- Patch Adams
One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever. -- Jenna Morasca
You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do. -- Bernie Siegel
You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory. -- Alan Arkin
A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself. -- Virat Kohli
Life, never deciding to master anything in particular. -- Tony Robbins
One reaches his goal by deciding to go away. -- Jorge P. Guerrero
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. -- Meg Greenfield
The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first. -- Bill Dedman
Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing. -- Wayne Dyer
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In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor. -- Evan Esar
You can become happy just by deciding to be happy. -- Rajneesh
He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. -- Margaret Atwood
...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act. -- Marilynne Robinson
It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote. -- Arlen Specter
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made. -- Jose Bergamin
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear. -- Theophilus London
Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions. -- Rick Warren
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election. -- Margaret Carlson
Nothing changes the environment like one person deciding to love another, no matter what. -- Neale Donald Walsch
There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit. -- Patricia Leavy
When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut. -- Duane G. Carey
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. -- Fred Brooks
Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows. -- Bill Copeland
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. -- Roberto Cavalli
The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win. -- Roger Martin
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. -- Neal Stephenson
If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote. -- Stefan Molyneux
You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ. -- Billy Graham
The deciding differentiator in how you drive LOYALTY lies within your greatest asset....your people. -- Don Farrell
It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want. -- Alexandra Potter
When I was deciding to fight, the thought of winning or losing didn't bother me. -- Velupillai Prabhakaran
In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind. -- Coco Chanel
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself. -- Albert Camus
The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost. -- Tom Seaver
The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes. -- Patrick Leahy
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. -- Maya Angelou
After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world. -- Tariq Ali
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice. -- Lysander Spooner
Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange. -- Danny Hillis
You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today. -- Ani DiFranco
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore -- Bob Goff
When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn't involve a magic spell. -- Emo Philips
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. -- Diane Sawyer
You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time -- Barack Obama
The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which. -- Piero Scaruffi
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. -- Naomi Wolf
And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go. -- Robyn
And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go. -- Robyn
Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person. -- Ken Blanchard
I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear. -- Katharine Hepburn
People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive. -- Steven Brust
Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board. -- Abi Morgan
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor. -- Rajneesh
How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? -- Ian Mcewan
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God. -- Darrin Patrick
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. -- Plato
The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people? -- Frank Schaeffer
Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup. -- Seth Godin
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves. -- George Soros
Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing. -- Alicia Keys
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it. -- Chuck Todd
To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves. -- Emily Oster
I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next. -- Martin Parr
By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary. -- Robin Harris
I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. -- David Levithan
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So I'm not wrong when I said you are a puppet? That you have no voice or choice in deciding? -- Sergio Martinez
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask. -- Aaron Levie
It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do. -- Michael Dell
Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it. -- Rory Vaden
The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted. -- Jane Smiley

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