Quotes About Deciding

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.

If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.

If you presume to take God's place, audaciously deciding what He is to say and how He is to say it, you have placed yourself over God! We lack the authority to judge Him. Nor are our efforts needed to defend Him. His honor stands far above any of our efforts to secure it.

We're not obsessed by anything, you see, insisted Ford. ... And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. I care about lots of things, said Slartibartfast, his voice trembling partly with annoyance, but partly also with uncertainty. Such as? Well, said the old man, life, the Universe. Everything, really. Fjords. Would you die for them? Fjords? blinked Slartibartfast in surprise. No. Well then. Wouldn't see the point, to be honest.

Dying took commitment. It was easier to go on living incompetently. What if she put off deciding until tomorrow? She needed time to get the nerve up and work out a foolproof, painless way to do it. Until then, she'd walk on - badly.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

Discipline with young children is mostly about deciding what you will do (and kindly and firmly following through) than with what you expect your child to do.

I love playing football. I love being happy. I love playing games. I think that's going to be the ultimate deciding factor in where I go.

But the Supreme Court does not make sweeping changes in constitutional law by accident, or by its own design. Rather, the Court is limited to deciding the cases that the parties ask the Court to decide.

99 percent people are searching future without deciding what they want? &1 percent are thinking why they did not do this.

Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night.

It would be nice if you could have some control over it, deciding which memories would stay, which would be banished to the netherworld. Poof. Just like that.

The most difficult thing about writing, I'm discovering, is not the act of constructing the sentences themselves. It's deciding what to put in, and where, and what to leave out. I'm constantly second-guessing myself. I chose the accident, but I could just as easily have started with any point during my thirty-five years of life before that. Why not start with: " I was born in the year 19-, in the city of -?

I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.

Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.'

Tasting food, thinking about it, talking about it, and deciding whether it can be better is the crux of my job - and my life. So when I discovered a tasting spoon that felt better in my hand, a touch softer against my bottom lip, and that stood a little taller on my counter, there was no going back.

Developing integrity is an essential part of recovery from the Nice Guy Syndrome. My definition of integrity is "deciding what feels right and doing it.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well.

See, being a grown-up is all about priorities, Typo. It's all about deciding what's important to you, because it can't all be. You can't be a grown-up and a perfect person at the same time.' 'What do you know about it? You're sixteen years old.' 'I was raised by grown-ups. I know more about grown-ups than I ever wanted to know.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be bitch.