#dec

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#been #decades #headlines #initiative #lost

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#appears #believe #black #church #decides

At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player. ↗

— James Iha

#becoming #better #could #day #decision

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#based #believe #challenge #choices #decisions

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#been #built #care #comparable #declared

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#enough #feel #guitar #i #more

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. ↗

— Neil Innes

#come #dancing #decided #did #here

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#based #cannot #conduct #decision #fate

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#feeling #fromm #love #art

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love #respect #self-deception #truth #love