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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. ↗

— Stephen Covey

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Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

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I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

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I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump. ↗

— Larry Mullen

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Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy? ↗

— Bob Schieffer

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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

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