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“I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.”

Years Long Hard Lasts Past Decided Championship Last Time My Future Offseason

Author:Jeff Gordon

“I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.”

Writing My Own Grief Disease Majors Losing Decided Affected Refuge Mobility

Author:Tara Brach

“Success is a moving target. I don't think we ever achieve “it”, at least in our own minds. But I do know this, if you think you have achieved your greatest success you clearly have decided to stop pushing yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Moving Achieve Decided Pushing Target Push Yourself Greatest Success

Author:Mike Michalowicz

“I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.”

Giving Kids Actors Four Stage Mom Married Shots Decided My Mom Modeling Smiley Stepdads

Author:Charlotte Arnold

“My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.”

World Stills Bigs Young Process Issues Identity Tough Decided Teenager Belonging Nationality

Author:Hiam Abbass

“I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!”

People Decided Concerts Teens Lots Of Money Pianist Chagrin

Author:Cy Coleman

“When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.”

Thinking Should Song Language Decision Audience Concern Decided Communicate Translate Should I Good Decision Scooters

Author:PSY

“With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided that rather than describing the body, I would use the body, my body, as a tool for making art.”

Thinking Art Two Ideas Use Body Together Tools Decided Traditional Sculpture Describing Carving

Author:Janine Antoni

“My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.”

Ifs Writing Mother Song Games Decided

Author:R. Kelly

“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.”

Years Play Kids Games Team Streets College Son Picks Decided Let Me Parks My Son Hockey Backup Lacrosse Goalies Hockey Team Riverside

Author:John Katzman

“I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.”

Ifs Running Decided I Realized Scales Competitors Spinning Integrating Processing Weaving Packing Textiles

Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha

“I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.”

Use Deals Numbers Principles Theory Decided Mathematics Mathematical Code Cryptography

Author:Jim Sanborn

“At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.”

Trying Wanted School Clear Lucky Directors Adults Decided

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.”

Has Beens Moments Class Decided Incredibles Racing Retiring Unforgettable Unforgettable Moments

Author:Sete Gibernau

“I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.”

Games Teaching Honest Decided Competition Being Honest Coaching Get Back

Author:Stu Jackson

“In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.”

Want School Jobs Impossible Decided Flying Where You Are Judged Airline Grad Grad School Seniority

Author:W. Richard Stevens

“So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.”

World I Can Speak Decided Israel

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.”

Said Done Speak Crime Decided Like Me Kidnapping

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—”

People Years My Own Flower Amount One Day Ordinary Years Ago Decided I Realized Bees Own Business Spelling Part Time Adept Bonnets Minding My Own Business

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.”

Knows Writing School Know How One Day High School Decided Daydreaming

Author:Mildred D. Taylor

“When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.”

War Would Be Standing Decided Wave Broke Height Patriotic Tall Inches Rejected

Author:Julia Child

“My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.”

Want Feels Jobs Havens Decided Credit Good Job Grammy Emmys

Author:Ester Dean

“I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.”

People Thinking Want Feels Jobs Young Numbers Successful Havens Like You Decided Yeah Credit Satisfied Being Successful Translate Good Job Grammy Emmys

Author:Ester Dean

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

Years Firsts Two Done Government Wanted Five Republican First Time Decided Majority Forty Transparent Things Done Good Years Government Shutdown Bad Years

Author:William J. Clinton

“I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”

Years Six Decided Tables Rate Lowest Six Year Olds

Author:Warren Buffett

“When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.”

Journey Decided Snakes

Author:William Stafford

“Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.”

Reason Fun Decided Assuming Logical Afterlife Fun Life

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.”

Should Personality Decided Painter Signatures

Author:Georges Braque

“I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.”

Thinking Writing Wanted Powerful Careers Wonderful Decided Exciting Profession Things To Do Most Powerful Wonderful Things Exciting Things

Author:Mary Oliver

“The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face.”

People Important Faces Fighting Water Drink Healthy Decided Important Things Gravity Invasion

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.”

World Whole Might Dark Silence Wife Sweet Decided My Wife Whole World Forests Warmth

Book:Day of a stranger

Source: Day of a stranger

“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Thinking Writing Years Morning Special Produce Painting Fool Decided Experience Tricks Articles Masterpiece Solidity

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.”

People World Sometimes Wanted Artist Difficult Decided Observation Visuals Facility Examining

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.”

Ideas Facts Theory Prove Decided Explanation Interpretation

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.”

Knows World Mind Mean Said Might Fall Hell Creative Areas Decided Profession Naked Creative Mind

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.”

Ends Realizing Thousand Ten Decided

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.”

Mind Mean Self Feelings Stars Fate Written Holy Anxiety Spring Decided Self Confidence Heavenly Oracles Cybernetics Psycho Cybernetics Lack Of Self Confidence Written In The Stars

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.”

Kind Play Would Be Able Wanted Sound Musician Decided Abstract Fabric Repetition Fragments Experimentation

Author:Terry Riley

“I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.”

Want Running School Jobs Three Parent Decided Pursue

Author:Lady Gaga

“After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.”

Years Natural Study Years Ago Decided Definitions Realising Surrealism Affinity

Author:Trevor Dunn

“This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.”

Made Government Choices Fall Religious Behinds Vision Decided Election Iraq Made It Progressive Secular Contests

Author:Adnan Pachachi

“I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.”

Years Wanted Decided Seven Physicians Seven Years

Author:Samuel Wilson

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

Ifs World Should Self Kids Mother Boys Aspect Ideals Decided Baseball Idealism Circus Self Centered Backyards Grandpa Ideal World

Author:Norman Rockwell

“The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.”

Involved Decided Importance Assuming Enterprise Expansion Affirmation Get Involved Pact Coca Cola

Author:George Kell

“In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.”

People Way Moments Helping Problem Found Energy Difficult Goal Effort Practice Achieve Decided Adversity Objectives Odds Proven Helping People Observing Psychiatrist Personal Goal

Author:Ari Kiev

“When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.”

Kind Art Book Kids Young Artist Guy Decided Being Yourself Corn Corny Young Artists

Author:Walt Disney

“I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.”

Want I Can Facts Decided Vote Democrat Voting Shepherds German Shepherds

Author:David Letterman

“It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.”

Children States White Decided White Supremacy Mississippi Supremacy

Author:Roy Wilkins

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