“I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.” PeopleWellsMadeReadingLiteratureEffortFictionSeriousOne DayDecidedScience FictionMagazines Author:Fred Saberhagen
“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.” ThinkingYearsMadeHardSchoolLawChoicesThreeParentDecisionHalfCareersConsciousDecidedUniversityOccupationHarshHalf A YearSchool DaysCareers Choices Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“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.” MadeGovernmentChoicesFallReligiousBehindsVisionDecidedElectionIraqMade ItProgressiveSecularContests Author:Adnan Pachachi
“We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.” TryingMadeCompanyDesignDecidedLibraryIncludingInsightComplicatedManageMade ItUselessDevicesSoftwareExpertiseIpodsHardwareItunesIndustrial Design Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“The night has made up its mind. It’s we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided for us, who refuse, who are too weak or too simple, or are perhaps, strictly, unable to understand” MindMadeMovingNightSimpleEventsWeakDecidedRefuse Book:The Orchardist Source: The Orchardist
“I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.” IfsGivingMindHumansPersonsMadeRaceHavensGiving UpDeserveDecidedSticksBreadHuman RaceTreatmentSuspectsConventionsPuddlesGenevaGeneva Convention Book:Assassination Vacation Source: Assassination Vacation