Deciding Quotes

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. (Russell Baker)
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
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. View quote
Frank Shorter
That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect a dissatisfaction with what-or who-is available. Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards. In Chamfort's words, 'It is sometimes said of a man who lives alone that he does not like society. This is like saying of a man that he does not like going for walks because he is not fond of walking at night in the forêt de Bondy. View quote
Alain de Botton
What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last. View quote
Haruki Murakami
We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally. View quote
John Rawls
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. View quote
Roberto Cavalli
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. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet. View quote
Douglas Adams
Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition. (Ayelet Waldman)
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. View quote
Rosa Luxemburg
Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it. View quote
Quentin Crisp
I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper. View quote
Albert Einstein
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land. View quote
Aldo Leopold
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. View quote
Mark Haddon
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done. View quote
Suze Orman
Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive. View quote
Helen Fisher
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made. View quote
Jose Bergamin
Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt. (Isaac Marion)
The salmon swimming upstream to spawn may be wily in a hundred ways, but she cannot even contemplate the prospect of abandoning her reproductive project and deciding instead to live out her days studying coastal geography or trying to learn Portuguese. The creation of a panoply of new standpoints is, to my mind, the most striking product of the euprimatic revolution. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players. View quote
James Surowiecki
Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering. View quote
Jean-Claude Carriere
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. View quote
Earl Nightingale