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decision our-actions regression
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide Alan Watts
decision understanding manipulation
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making Alan Greenspan
decision looking-forward life-is
Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment? Al Pacino
decision further law matter personal privileges prompt serious thank
We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment. John Bolton
decision explained therefore understood
We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody. Javier Solana
decisions early
We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few. Mark Shapiro
decisions-we-make splits life-is
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds. Chris Cleave
decision mind world
Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind. Chris Colfer
decision may littles
There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making. David Allen
games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. Charles Dickens
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Charles Caleb Colton
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time. Brian Nicola
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
loved promise thrills tv whenever
I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits. Gretchen Rubin
loved loves pulls rare team
This was a team that really loved each other. It's rare that you find a team that really pulls for each other, that really loves each other. David Justice
loved
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! Kathryn Lasky
loved political
When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions. Robert Krulwich
loved meant
She said she loved us, and she meant it.
loved
She said she just loved it here and wanted to stay.
loved passion work
She had a passion for what she did, ... She loved to work and she loved to make music. Justin Timberlake
loved neighbors
She really loved her neighbors there. She made a lot of friends there. Ronald Williams
loved
She never complained about it. She loved those kids.
prepared zimbabwe
We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.
prepared
We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus, James Hogan
prepared
We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.
prepared time
We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.
prepared
We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves. Brigham Young
prepared rubber stamp work
I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president. Daniel Inouye
prepared quick ready
We didn't think he was that fast. He's pretty quick but we were ready for it. We were prepared for everything they did. DeMeco Ryans
prepared
You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive. Deepak Chopra
prepared sure
We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.