#dictate

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#advice #anything #athlete #coaches #dictate

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#bear #dictate #direction #him #his

Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not? ↗

— Lauren Bush

#bad #bad press #cousins #dictate #done

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#dictate #faith #happiness #helps #inner

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment. ↗

— Chris Evans

#chose #degree #dictate #handle #happiness

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that. ↗

— David Lloyd

#am #artists #because #board #conventions

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#dictate #disadvantaged #field #helen #her

We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#band #dictate #evolves #free #free agent

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#ignorance #itself #obeys #reason #submits