Deciding Quotes - page 8

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official. (Buzz Aldrin)
Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country. View quote
Roberta Flack
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.' 'Yes. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control. View quote
Taylor Swift
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep. View quote
Mikhail Baryshnikov
One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening. View quote
Dan Simmons
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. View quote
Martin Amis
What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love? View quote
David Foster Wallace
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. View quote
Stephen Covey
After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world. View quote
Tariq Ali
I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. (Witold Pilecki)
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case. View quote
George Orwell
It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote. View quote
Arlen Specter
Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to move toward. View quote
Anthony Robbins
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. View quote
Larry Mullen
Theist or atheist, monist or anarchist must all admit that society and science are equally interested with theology in deciding whether the Universe is one or many, a harmony or a discord. View quote
Henry Adams
In Kleist's essay humans are caught between the graceful automatism of the puppet and the conscious freedom of a god. The jerky, stuttering quality of their actions comes from their feeling that they must determine the course of their lives. Other animals live without having to choose their path through life. Whatever uncertainty they may feel sniffing their way through the world is not a permanent condition; once they reach a place of safety, they are at rest. In contrast, human life is spent anxiously deciding how to live. View quote
John N. Gray
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice. View quote
Thomas Sowell
The future of the world order, of the United Nations and of every country, is our common future. Thus, while deciding today on the fate of the United Nations, we should be aware that we are also determining our own destiny. View quote
Leonid Kuchma
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. View quote
Patch Adams
Beneath the smiling mask, we can see the injury that results from a deficiency of rebellion. The nice ones are never quite real. They lack self-definition, self-confidence, because they have never created boundaries and limits for themselves by making decisions. Having never dared to break the taboos they suffer from shame. Their sins are ones of omission rather than commission. They "have left undone those things they ought to have done,” most especially deciding for themselves what is good and evil. (Sam Keen)
For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. View quote
William Ernest Hocking
For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual. View quote
William Ernest Hocking
Courts do not exist for the sake of discipline, but for the sake of deciding matters in controversy. View quote
Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen
I am basically writing for a general audience rather than an academic audience. So, I explain stuff, I don't assume knowledge of any of this on the part of the reader. In a kind of general sense I suppose I have, when I am deciding how much needs to be explained, in mind my primary audience. View quote
William Dalrymple (historian)