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“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

“Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.”

“I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.”

Found Poor College Poet Decided Paid

Author:Josh Lieb

“In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.”

“School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.”

Way Want Wanted School Found Stupid Taught Painting Fool Shapes Concern Decided Paint Painter Colour Very Stupid

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.”

Use Found Difficult Poor Levels Numbers Study Emotional Letters Decided Response Math Equations Algebra Emotional Response

Book:Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

Source: Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

“Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.”

Men I Can Found Like You Decided Mirrors Scared Who I Am Doing Me Just Doing Me

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.”

Feels Should Certain Found Jesus Views Groups Type Mets Decided Wings Conservative Point Of View One Time Right Wing Extremist

Book:The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon

Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon

“After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.”

Found Decided Jew Resigned Goyim

Author:Sammy Davis, Jr.

“I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.”

Firsts Able Found Effort Morning Effects Health My Friends Decided Quitting Newspapers Bombs Smoking Admirable Quit Smoking

Author:Albert Camus

“I love it when I meet a woman who was poor as a child and maybe had an abusive family, and broke out and found the one and they're married with a very healthy home and children, and they've let go of regret and their past and decided to embrace their journey and what that stands for.”

Children Home Past Found Poor Journey Regret Healthy Letting Go Married Decided Embrace Broke Abusive Found The One

Author:Abbie Cornish

“When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations".”

Ifs Trying War States Use Found United United States Decided Relation Propaganda Public Relations Bad Word

Author:Edward Bernays

“We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push myself because it allowed me to give back. I have a scholarship program. When I found out the average age of a homeless person is 9½ years old, I said there must be something that I can do. Now, I am the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless.”

Want Giving Feels Years Persons Said I Can Age Found Can Do Our Lives Areas Program Decided Average Uncomfortable Homeless Giving Back Scholarship Coalitions

Author:Farrah Gray

“At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.”

Thinking Years Art Facts Found Names Objects Painting Decided Brave Museums Prehistoric

Author:Pierre Soulages

“I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.”

Matter Body Found Grows Difficult Brain Teach Struggle Fields Son Research Decided Praise Mindset Convinced My Son Stressed Personal Experiences

Author:Salman Khan

“I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.”

Knows Years Song Found Sound My Own Written Heard Worst Decided Village Old You

Author:Wyclef Jean

“I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.”

“I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.”

People Art Wanted Found Involved Decided Contemporary Contemporary Art

Author:Jason Blum

“I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.”

Found Wealth Mines Decided Richest Man In Babylon

Book:The Richest Man in Babylon: With Study Guide

Source: The Richest Man in Babylon: With Study Guide

“We thought that using rap would draw a parallel with the protest music from the 60s and 70s that we found through the research for animadoc. When we thought about rap, Emicida immediately came to mind and we decided to call him to create this song bring the audience back to earth and put their feet on the ground. Emicida's song is the only one that has lyrics in actual understandable Portuguese.”

Mind Earth Song Found Audience Feet Draws Research Decided Rap Protest Parallels Portuguese Feet On The Ground

Author:Alex Abreu

“When I find that I am more conscious, it's because I'm in tune with a higher reality. When I'm less conscious, it's because I've cut off that entunement to some extent. Maybe through drinking, through anger, through whatever. And I realized then that God has to be an infinite consciousness, and that I had to be an expression of that consciousness. And that the goal of life then must be to become more and more in tune with that consciousness. And I decided to give my life to God. And around that time, to make a long story short, I found Autobiography of a Yogi.”

“I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.”

People Writing Found Fun Drug Behavior Decided Clubs Aggressive Zombie

Author:Jess Walter

“I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though, that writing poetry affected my prose to the point where I never again wrote in one draft, and my prose just took longer and longer and longer. It took longer and longer to come up with an acceptable text. And that's probably one of the reasons that my output has slowed down.”

Writing Mind Wells Reason Might Found Decided Come Up Prose Affected Acceptable Output Writing Poetry

Author:Richard Meltzer

“In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda.”

Wells Book Found Decided Tragedy Soldier Iraq Propaganda Village Occupation Afghanistan Fewer Troops Going Out Documents Taliban American Troops

Author:Yaroslav Trofimov

“I started taking classes and doing things that I had always wanted to do but couldn't because I was working. I signed up for a bunch of workout classes, and to my surprise, I realized I was enjoying it. Because I was working out so much, I started looking for more workout clothes and found a lot of redundancy - predictability that was uninspired. That's when I decided to start my own line.”

Wanted Found Enjoy Lines My Own Class Clothes Decided Surprise Work Out I Realized Bunch Workout Predictability Redundancy Uninspired Workout Clothes

Author:Dayna Devon

“I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined.”

Years Different States Wanted Found Five Planets Years Ago Decided Five Years

Author:Ramez Naam

“I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?”

Said Two Different Stories Found House Parent Saws Happened Events Son Concerned Decided Clubs Chickens Portions Location True Story

Author:Paul Haggis

“There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover it in its own fashion. This was unprecedented in American history. CBS cancelled two-thirds of the newscast... to get a guy and take him out.”

Two Guy Asks Found Pieces Media Fashion Events Paper News Decided Thirds Hearing Iran Covered American History Unprecedented Overlooked Iran Contra

Author:Roger Ailes

“I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.”

Found Fun Easy Decided Magazines

Author:Ann Patchett

“In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily, that author thanked his agent. I looked up the agent on the web and found out that he not only represented authors writing books similar to mine, but I knew some of his clients! So, I sent in the manuscript, and they decided to represent it.”

Writing Book Found Mines Pages Decided Agents Clients Writing A Book Manuscripts Acknowledgment Literary Agents

Author:Debra Hamel

“I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't think I'll ever come east again. So I decided to stay and go through the halls and stairways, talk to Gilda Radner, holler, express some of my anger and make sure there were no ghosts in the hallways that I should ever be afraid of.And then I found out - it sounds strange, but I found out she had left me the house. We never talked about her dying and what she was going to leave me or I would ever leave her. We just didn't talk about those things.”

Ifs Thinking Should Home Found House Left Sound Dying Strange Decided East Ghost California Halls Funeral Leaving Me Hallways Stairways

Author:Gene Wilder

“Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.”

“We moved up here [to St.Paul with my wife] and started to teach, we very quickly found out we were not equipped either to teach or to run our own pottery, and so we decided that we had to have further training.”

Running Found Teach Wife Training Decided Moved My Wife Pottery

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.”

People Thinking Found Decided Sooner Or Later Love Always

Author:Melody Beattie

“...she's leaving now. ... Janis attacks the back door of the school gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's found the Goths' hangout. Who knew? "Oof," someone says. She keeps walking, muttering, "sorry" to whomever it was she hit with the flying door. *** Cabel: ... That was the Goth stage where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention the hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And, when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.”

“This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.”

Courses Found Animal Equal Members Concern Standing Decided Fishes Invisible Berlin Aquariums

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.”

Men Trying Years Firsts Persons Might Jobs Found Deals Worry Anxiety Decided Fellows Accepted Worried Boss Salary

Book:Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition

Source: Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition

“"Catherine." she paused. I waited, tapping my finger on my desk. Then she spoke words that had me almost falling out of my chair. "I've decided to come to your wedding." I actually glanced at my phone again to see if I'd been mistaken and it was someone else who'd called me. "Are you drunk?" I got out when I could speak. She signed. "I wish you wouldn't marry that vampire, but I'm tired of him coming between us." Aliens replaced her with a pod person, I found myself thinking. That's the only explanation”

Ifs Thinking Persons Fall Found Speak Wish Decided Tired Fingers Phones Drunk Vampire Aliens Explanation Chairs Spokes Desks Replaced Mistaken Wish You I'm Tired Tapping

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves.”

Feels Believe Heart Reason Found I Believe Levels Pure Conflict Eternal Capable Evidence Decided Flesh Realms Addresses Nerves Marrow Untrustworthy

Author:Antonin Artaud

“I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.”

World Writing Play Found Pages Decided Imaginary Backyards Imaginary World

Author:Veronica Roth

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