Deciding Quotations

We in the ministry of IT and Communications often get flak for deciding what to ban. We actually never decide something should be banned. We always follow orders from different ministries.

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.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.

I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey.

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.

'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

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.

One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever.

I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came.

I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.

I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I'm deciding what to wear, I don't run out of options. I love shopping!

Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.

Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

I have my own office, and I'm there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I'm sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour.

In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually determined, at least heavily conditioned by the fact that it implies a better ethical outcome than the alternatives.

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.

It's very important to me that I look good when I go out publicly. I like looking at my clothes rack in the morning and deciding what to pick out. I enjoy fashion.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.

It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

The people who built the first of these structures had no model to go by, no precedent to use in building a monument. It's a bit like deciding to build a functioning spaceship in your back yard, and succeeding.

We've already been looking at - for the past six or seven weeks - a number of hunts and we will now be deciding on which ones to put our resources into. We will definitely be monitoring hunts in Wales.

We believe we should wait and see the composition of a new government and the policies of a new government before deciding what relationship to have with the new government.

We're just waiting. We're just in awe of what we're seeing and we're just waiting to see the whole thing so we can really get about the business of deciding what to do.

With the meltdown of the Net and the rise in unemployment, we'll see a return to punishing job hoppers. That's mostly because when the power shifts back to human resources, HR people with no power seem to get off on deciding what is acceptable,

We're fairly well down the track of deciding who the customers will be.

We reject the idea of rejection. We don't have some grizzled editor deciding who or what is worthy of publication. Lulu lets anyone publish their work -- and the world decides on its merits.

We're in the process right now of judges and vigilantes -- people taking justice into their own hands and deciding to change the law without either the courts or the legislature acting.

We're still deciding if we should push for a capital gains cut this year, ... The ironic thing is that we do all these estimates on what kind of impact a cut would have and then the U.S. Treasury says 'Oh, no. We can't afford it.' Well, we cut capital gains a few years ago and now we've got an enormous budget surplus. Much of it was generated by capital gains.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

The only conclusion one can draw while money was a factor, it wasn't the deciding factor for him. It didn't come down to the team that could pay him the most money.

There are events for each of the languages offered by the school. It's a great way to showcase all the languages and broaden some of the students' horizons. It's especially good for the lower classmates who are still deciding what language to take." ()

We're a real democracy. We go through a whole process where everybody is involved in deciding on everything from a drum groove to a guitar sound.

When I did play the most important thing for me was to win. And maybe winning just wasn't as important as it once was and I think once I really came to terms with that, that was kind of the deciding factor for me.

When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.

The process was done by the book. If you start deciding these issues in a guilt-by-association method, you will have a situation which has deep and harmful ramifications to the economic interests of this country.

The public can always have a say in deciding the future of the buildings, but the president will take part in decision-making, too, because it is a unique architectural compound.

We had a way of looking up ZIP codes and looking up plane schedules. Now we're deciding whether our systems are better, or if we should just link to the Web. We have more options because we have the ability to transport Web content to our customers.

We need to be clear about this -- we haven't canceled games indefinitely. We will be deciding on a week-to-week basis.

Many barriers have been broken down in female employment but it seems that for whatever reason, when it comes to computing, girls are deciding to stand back.

She's one of our core artists and when we got her new CD, deciding to play it was sort of a no-brainer. She's completely traditional and considering how long it's been since her last CD, the true country fans are going to flock to it.

Some companies are deciding it's cheap to invest in Russia.

Some communities and some companies still are deciding that they're going to wait and see (what happens when January 1, 2000 arrives) and we think that's a high risk roll of the dice.

Ms. Lewinsky can resolve some of these crucial conflicts, and House managers have a responsibility to interview her before deciding to call her as a witness. This is Lawyering 101; any good lawyer would talk to a witness before deciding to put her on the witness stand.

no cookbook recipes for deciding where the cycle stands.

One of deciding factors in coming here was that I've always liked playing here. When you've had success someplace, it's nice to make it your home park. I think it will be a quick timetable to get home-field advantage here.

Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.

Never in history have we seen an example of nations voluntarily deciding to exercise their sovereign powers jointly in the exclusive interest of their peoples, thus overcoming age-old impulses of rivalry and distrust,

never hire, nor retain on my staff someone convicted of such crimes against children. Councilor Burton has acknowledged and apologized for his mistake and poor judgment. If he does indeed seek re-election, this is a matter that his constituents will have to weigh in deciding whether to support him.

PokerPadz allows the online player to shuffle, stack, roll and even bounce their poker chips while deciding if 'count chip69' is bluffing or really does have the nuts, ... PokerPadz Mouse Pad helps online players new to live action gear up for a real casino tournament. Practicing those chip tricks at home will let everyone at the table think you have been at the live games your whole life.

I was sitting there in May not really playing much after the French, kind of deciding what route I wanted to go, ... I didn't really expect to finish up so strong. To have a Grand Slam title and then the Champions Race No. 1 trophy as well, it's been a ride since then.

I wouldn't want it any other way. If it's the game deciding if we're going to go to the playoffs or not, I want to be out on the mound just like every other pitcher on this staff wants to be out on the mound.

I guess I'm naive. I really had no idea it would be a problem. I just heard the deciding factor could be thrusting. Apparently, anything over three thrusts and you're in trouble. Well, nobody told me. I didn't even do covering shots, so there's nothing I can cut away to. This is what you get.

If they're deciding to pass that cost along to Detroit residents, Warren certainly can't dispute that.

I don't know what happened. I reached down to look at my oil temperature, and when I looked back up everyone was dead stopped. The only silver lining is that our backup car should be as good as our primary. We came down here testing last month and had a tough time deciding which car to bring back, so that's a good sign for Sunday.

I am kind of perplexed by their argument, ... You have a federally mandated program, created with federal dollars, but the states are issuing it. The states are not deciding anything, so I am not really sure how it is not a federal ID when the federal government makes all the decisions.

I am sure the other coaches in the league had a hard time deciding where to place our players on the All-Conference team, just as I did placing theirs.

But, what's Wal-Mart's assortment and customer experience compared to Best Buy? That's an important deciding factor for consumers.

But the American people are already deciding that their Constitution does not permit dismembering children,

Because of the brutality of the crime, that was an overriding factor for the jury in deciding for death for Mr. Morales, and the governor supported that decision.

I had it in my pocket the whole game and I was rubbing it the whole game. Maybe that was the deciding factor, the lucky lady bug.

I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.

I enjoy the details. I enjoy coming up with ideas for improving the script, changing scenes and deciding what locations and wardrobe should be - the process of making a film.

I don't think it's our role to sit down with various parties, and come to an agreement, a consensus. We're a regulatory agency, deciding on matters which are brought before us.

For these reasons, insurance companies will look at the breed of dog when deciding in terms of underwriting. There is no industry-wide policy. Each company is going to treat dogs differently.

If we run again this year, we will run in the Breeders' Cup Classic. We had intentions of either giving him time off or run in the Classic. We will look at the pace scenario before deciding on the classic. We'll see how Lava Man does and whether or not he goes on to the Breeders' Cup. If Lava Man does not go, we will probably go to the Classic.

I always knew I wanted to something in the arts as far as a career. But (until deciding on the circus), I was never sure what I wanted to do.

He would have been a great part of the team. If you look at the times those guys skated, he would have probably been a deciding factor there. (But) I don't fault him for it.

We therefore expect more say on how the Senate is run, and that includes everything from deciding what bills are debated on the floor, what goes into conference reports, to deciding committee chairs and ratios, and assigning committee staff and office space,

Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads - choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.

There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.

We look at the technology, see if it works and what it costs, before deciding on a final solution.

He was fortunate to stay on the pitch. I don't think it was a malicious arm he raised to hurt somebody but it was raised and with that the boy has collided into it. They could have had easy claims for him to go off the pitch. I think the deciding factor today was the actual match official. I felt his performance today was at times very good. It was a little bit of a itchy game, there was a few tackles going in but he dealt with most of it positively and correctly and that was a crucial decision. I have to praise him for that.

He didn't want to sign here and then in a week be traded. I think that was the deciding factor.

He likes to see debate. He thinks it's very healthy, very constructive for the process. Oftentimes, he has to make the deciding decision when he has his advisers on both sides of the same subject.

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change. His general philosophy is, if we don't get a couple things better, we're going to have a couple drivers miss out on the Chase.

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change.

I think I still got my point across, irrelevant to the jury deciding or not. Plus, with the jury you never know. I mean, there's always that risk. And with the settlement presented to me I was happy,

I think in the fall we'll still be in the position of deciding who's going to play what positions for the first two weeks. And then we've got to make a decision one way or the other after two weeks and go with it. And the interesting part will be how quickly any of the freshmen might be able to get involved.

I think it's going to be a strong team. I will probably have some headaches deciding who to start, which is a pleasant headache to have.

It could be a deciding game in the league, but if we want at least a share of the title we've got to beat Thomas Worthington.

It hurt us, because he's the guy that gets the majority of the reps. But that's part of football. Your backups have to be able to step in and do the job. (Sophomore backup) Kenduall (Thorbs) did a good job. But that wasn't the deciding factor tonight.