Deciding What To Do Quotes

• Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Inspire

  "What Higher Education Can Learn From Steve Jobs" byBrian Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

  John C. Maxwell

  Important

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Death, Wish, Fellowship

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Focus And Concentration, Time Management

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Success, Healing, Differences

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• If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Being aware of truths about what is good or right or about what we ought to do is not the same as deciding what to do. Nor can the former truths be derived from decisions about what to do, or about procedures for making such decisions, unless these procedures themselves rest in some way on the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Decision, Way, Truth Is

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Independent, Way, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When deciding what to do next, we can always ask: Does this thought, emotion, or behavior bring me closer to or take me further away from my center?

  Stephen Gilligan

  Doe, Next, Emotion

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• The amazing thing is that we're part of people's daily lives, like brushing their teeth. It's just something they do throughout the day while working, buying things, deciding what to do after work and much more. Google has been accepted as part of people's lives.

  Larry Page

  Buying Things, People, Google

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• The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Secret, Realizing, Planets

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Moving, Teaching

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Government, Space, Experts

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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• I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do.

  Lisa Genova

  Life, Rain, Hands

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Left Neglected”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Thinking, Important, Consideration

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