Decided Quotes
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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If you choose not to act, you have little chance of success. What’s more, when you choose to act, you’re able to succeed more frequently than you think. How often in life do we avoid doing something because we think we’ll fail? Is failure really worse than doing nothing? And how often might we actually have triumphed if we had just decided to give it a try?
Katty Kay
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I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.
Archie Manning
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When I decided I was a boy, I realized that if I wanted to pass, I'd have to learn to walk differently, talk differently, dress differently, basically act differently than I did as a girl. But why did we need to act at all?
Ellen Wittlinger
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A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.
Geoff Nicholson
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The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.
Seth Godin
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
Lois McMaster
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.
Miranda Otto
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I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.
Mordechai Vanunu
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I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.
Melvyn Bragg
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Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.
Michael Vick
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It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.
Miranda Richardson
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A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
Rick Moranis
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I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
Terry Bradshaw
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Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
Raul Julia
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I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
Sarah Zettel
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I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.
Cathy Freeman
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I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.
Ernie Harwell
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We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.
Richard Feynman
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America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago
Tommy Franks
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My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!
Morena Baccarin
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We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, "I've decided I want to be cremated." I said, "Alright, get your coat."
Dave Spikey
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I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.
Barbara Brown Taylor