Decided Quotes
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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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Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
Steven Levitt
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So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.
Mordechai Vanunu
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The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.
William K. Black
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So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.
Sarah Dessen
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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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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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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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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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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 decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
Terry Bradshaw
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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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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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I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.
Melvyn Bragg
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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 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 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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Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
Raul Julia
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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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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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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 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
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People often ask whether Obama passes the 'kishka test:' whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine.
Michael Oren
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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