Choices Quotes
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Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities.
Martha Beck -
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
Tom G. Palmer
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I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.
Peter Sarsgaard -
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
Amy Chua -
Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.
Deena Kastor -
I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.
Daniel Johns Silverchair -
Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.
Tony Blair -
When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.
Barack Obama
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It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
Ryan Adams -
Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
William Shakespeare -
I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
Joe Morton -
Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.
Charles Duhigg -
Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.
Mayim Bialik -
Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
Lauren Myracle
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Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.
Per Petterson -
Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.
Bill Courtney -
What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?
Alex Kurtzman -
At 'Wicked,' they are really great about letting you make your own choices with the roles.
Lindsay Mendez -
There are so many good roles for women out there, I don't understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true - there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren't interesting.
Lisa Edelstein -
What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.
Ludivine Sagnier
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One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.
Quentin L. Cook -
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
William Glasser -
You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.
E.J.Gold -
You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't have many choices you can make the best choices.
Brian Lindstrom