#deciding

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#factor #how #long #long run #much

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

— John Carmack

#focus #going #matter #things #you

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

I find it interesting that 16-year-olds are having plastic surgery. People in their 40s used to think, 'I'm aging, I have to do something about it.' Now children are deciding they don't like the way they look. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#aging #children #deciding #find #having

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#before #consistency #consistently #conversational #deciding

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#deciding #else #get #give #going

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody. ↗

— Jane Asher

#another #being #deciding #dressing #end

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. ↗

— Paul Berg

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

— Roberta Flack

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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. ↗

— Tom Landry

#achieving #deciding #go #goal #how