#dec

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. ↗

— George Saunders

#bonus #character #clients #convey #deciding

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#anything #before #better #decide #first

I just can't believe all the things I did that decade. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#decade #did #i #just #things

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#asking #asking questions #deciding #early #i

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#both #deceptive #english #english language #half

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#decided #get #helped #i #learn

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so. ↗

— John Scarlett

#decision #deploy #iraqi #military #minutes

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#both #boxing #cases #characters #decline

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#being #burden #closest #collaborators #decisions

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#accountant #anything #big #big issue #chicago