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"To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor."
"To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others."
"Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do."
"There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything."
"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."
"Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B."
"I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives."
"God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I'm 5'11, to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that."
"Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility."
"I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge."
"Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions."
"My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business."
"To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory."
"Once comics become your life, you have to make decisions on what you spend your time on."
"I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse."
"It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect."
"Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions."
"In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going."
"Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?"
"Impossible to see, the future is."
