Quotes About Deciding What You Want

#1. And so then, keep on growing, My son. Keep on becoming. And keep on deciding what you want to become in the next highest version of your Self. Keep on working toward that. Keep on! Keep on! This is God Work we're up to, you and I. So keep on!

Neale Donald Walsch

#2. I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

David Mermin

#3. It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

Alexandra Potter

#4. 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

#5. People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

Mark Thomas

#6. I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

Theophilus London

#7. Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you're trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right.

Ryan Lilly

#8. There are things that are happening way earlier than [the Oscars] when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie.I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

Don Cheadle

#9. I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

Caleb Cushing

#10. 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

#11. We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

Annalee Newitz

#12. There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join.

Meghan Daum

#13. Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. "Y"know, old fellow," he once told Martin,"if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn't lash it!

Georgette Heyer

#14. The standard you should apply in deciding whether or not to have an active relationship with him is the same one you should apply to all the relationships in your life: you will not be mistreated or disrespected or manipulated.

Cheryl Strayed

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing is more powerful in deciding the quality of life than attitude.

Toni Sorenson

#18. The deciding differentiator in how you drive LOYALTY lies within your greatest asset ... your people.

Don Farrell

#19. What? You're thinking for yourself? You're deciding on your own? You're applying your own yardsticks, your own judgments, your own values? Who do you think you are, anyway? And, indeed, that is precisely the question you are answering.

Neale Donald Walsch

#20. Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.

Rick Warren

#21. Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Richard Serra

#22. Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#23. Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing.
Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you
want, but because of what you choose to do.

Eric Greitens

#24. Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to move toward.

Tony Robbins

#25. And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.

Donald Miller

#26. The important thing in tidying is not deciding what to discard but rather what you want to keep in your life.

Marie Kondo

#27. The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.

Sam Mendes

#28. Don't let anyone take your power by influencing what you do ... sure ask for advice when you are still deciding, but once you are sure what you want to go for, don't let anyone deflect you. It is YOUR choice to make and to follow through.

Jay Woodman

#29. One secret of happiness in life is to know the very basic of life economy, deciding what kind of life you want and knowing how much you need to achieve just that. The earlier you know how much is enough the better and happier you will be in life.

Tim I. Gurung

#30. Coming up with goals, updating them, and monitoring our progress in achieving them is less important, I believe, than the process of emotionally deciding what it is you want to do.

Keith Ferrazzi

#31. Sometimes in life, you do things you don't want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. It's all about deciding what's worth losing and what's worth keeping.

Lindy Zart

#32. While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Bobby Scott

#33. Just a kiss, Kitten."
"Kitten?" No one called her that.
His mouth curved. "You're skittish, wanting my touch, but afraid. Deciding if you want to claw me or purr for me. Like a kitten."
She lifted an eyebrow. "What if I claw you?"
"Bring it, baby. That

Jennifer Lyon

#34. Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result.

Mark Victor Hansen

#35. 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.

Suze Orman

#36. I think when you're kids, you're less . . . defined? Then you get older and you start deciding what kind of person you want to be, and it doesn't always match up with what your friends are turning into.

Tana French

#37. When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

Janet Montgomery

#38. Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?

Peter McWilliams

#39. The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

I.B. Opene

#40. I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

Shane Carruth

#41. I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.

Jessamyn West

#42. We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive ... by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

Andy Andrews

#43. All - all right," she said, looking dubiously at the chair. "I - um, I need to change, though."
"I'll just wait in the hall." He straightened his spine and walked from the room, deciding he was the noblest, most chivalrous, and possibly the most stupid man in all Britain.

Julia Quinn

#44. I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do.

Lisa Genova

#45. Deciding to do it and actually doing it are two very different things.

Toni Sorenson

#46. To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

Timothy Noah

#47. Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.

Richard Carlson

#48. While before deciding to make the rounds of

Richard Price

#49. Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Robert Pinsky

#50. 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

#51. Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it's easy.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#52. He took a moment, as if he were deciding which tack to go with. I think he chose honesty, but it's so hard to tell. And if you chose honesty as a strategy, is it still honesty?

Kate Morgenroth

#53. Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Meg Greenfield

#54. When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

Meg Rosoff

#55. I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't ... and who lives, and who dies.

Christopher Pike

#56. When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

Jim Rohn

#57. My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

Rob Paulsen

#58. We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made the mistake that a democracy has to adopt America's interests, and that is a contradiction because a democracy basically is people deciding what their interests are.

George Soros

#59. The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.

A.E. Samaan

#60. I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey.

Tom Glavine

#61. Logic doesn't always lead us down the right path. Logic tells us not to take chances. Not to chase after that risk. To ignore the what ifs. I guess part of growing up is deciding when to listen to your head...and when to listen to your heart.

Jenny B. Jones

#62. Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system.

Daniel Keidl

#63. I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

Kim Weston

#64. Fighting isn't about knowing how. It's about deciding to.

Neal Stephenson

#65. Most of our problems today are not that we don't know, but that we don't know how to put things together with the right zeal and grit to get something noble and leave noble footprints!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#66. Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,

Walter Isaacson

#67. Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be.

Neale Donald Walsch

#68. Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

Seth Gabel

#69. There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story.

Peter Landesman

#70. In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually determined, at least heavily conditioned by the fact that it implies a better ethical outcome than the alternatives.

David Novak

#71. Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.

Umberto Eco

#72. Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.

Sy Montgomery

#73. Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

Gwenda Bond

#74. All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

P.D. James