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• Success is a moving target. I don't think we ever achieve “it”, at least in our own minds. But I do know this, if you think you have achieved your greatest success you clearly have decided to stop pushing yourself.

  Mike Michalowicz

  Moving, Thinking, Mind

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• My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.

  Hiam Abbass

  Teenager, Issues, Identity

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• I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

  Cy Coleman

  People, Teens, Concerts

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• I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

  John Katzman

  Team, Kids, Son

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• I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Running, Textiles, Weaving

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• At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

  Stephen Daldry

  School, Trying, Adults

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• I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

  Sete Gibernau

  Class, Racing, Unforgettable Moments

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• So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Israel, World, Speak

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Done, Speak, Crime

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Writing, School, One Day

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• When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

  Julia Child

  War, Patriotic, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Country

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Hero, Kids, Land

  "The Genius of Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Jobs, Children

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.227, Best Books on

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• ...I see that White Light will only return to the planet when every human being recognizes every other human being as an individualized frequency of the White Light. As long as we keep eliminating or devaluing other human beings we have decided we don't like, ie., destroying frequencies of the spectrum, we will not be able to experience the White Light. Our job is to protect and nurture each human frequency so that the White Light can return.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Inspirational, Jobs, White

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• I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.

  Cub Swanson

  Smart, Mma, Champion

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• 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.

  Josh Lieb

  College, Poet, Poor

  "Wanna Write For Latenight? Get Tips From A 'Tonight Show' Producer". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.

  Charlie Day

  Baseball, Teacher, Regret

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Jobs, People, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

  Janine Shepherd

  People, Choices, Matter

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• Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

  David Bolinsky

  Art, School, Illustration

  "Lives of a cell, the 3-D version". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 14, 1007.

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• I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.

  Paul Stanley

  Workout, Work Out, Body

  "How KISS Frontman Paul Stanley Keeps Fit". Interview with Ben Radding, www.mensfitness.com.

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• You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Believe, Heart, Brain

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, Opponents, Talent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.159

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• The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Government, Years

  Letter to former Virginia governor John Letcher on August 28, 1865. "Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee" by John William Jones, p. 203, 1874.

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