#decided

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#decided #england #first #go #had

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.' ↗

— Richard Dreyfuss

#already #because #community #decided #got

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #being lied to #decided #done #eccentric

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#five #go #i #instead #natural

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#achieve #certain #confidence #costs #decided

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it. ↗

— Simon Callow

#ask #back #bbc #bring #decided

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. ↗

— John Updike

#children #decided #education #equipped #fathers

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. ↗

— Steven Chu

#average #brother #comparison #cumulative #decidedly

But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do. ↗

— Connie Chung

#cnn #come #decided #happy #i

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#decided #enter #feelings #getting #holidays