Top 706 Deciding Quotes & Sayings

Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spend her life with? I've read that story a million times, but a stepmother deciding which of her children she'll save in a freak accident? Now that's a challenge.

When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

My faith is central to who I am as a human being, not just as an actor - so it informs every decision I make, whether it's deciding on a project or deciding on how to treat the guy who cuts me off in traffic.

So I'm not wrong when I said you are a puppet? That you have no voice or choice in deciding?

Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

I am always tying up and then deciding to depart.

There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit.

...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

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

I read 'Lean In' at a really important time as I was deciding to run for office.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.

I would like to explore before deciding my kind of genre.

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.

I have disregarded gender when deciding which part to audition for.

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

There's a very big difference between people deciding to absent themselves from a shared space in order to make a point, which I support, and people deciding to absent somebody else, which I'm absolutely opposed to.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.

I'm a common law judge. I believe in deciding every case on its facts, not on a legal philosophy. And I believe in deciding each case in the most limited way possible, because common law judges have a firm belief that the best development of the law is the one that lets society show you the next step, and that next step is in the new facts that each case presents.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first.

In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor.

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

I do not have the luxury of deciding which provisions of the Ohio Constitution to defend.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

When I was deciding to fight, the thought of winning or losing didn't bother me.

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

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.

The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.

The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decision that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make.

If we lose track when it comes to deciding when to stop, that should be a sign.

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your story and/or talent.

Deciding to leave Milan's bench is not easy. But it's a decision I had to make.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.

Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.

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

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

Research is especially important when we're deciding on a new menu.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.