Choices Quotes
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When I take photographs, my body inevitably enters a trancelike state. Briskly weaving my way through the avenues, every cell in my body becomes as sensitive as radar, responsive to the life of the streets... If I were to give it words, I would say: "I have no choice... I have to shoot this... I can't leave this place for another's eyes... I have to shoot it... I have no choice." An endless, murmuring refrain.
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This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.
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The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.
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The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.
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The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
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I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they're supposed to.
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Seeing other people perform inspires me. I couldn't be a good performer if just relied on my own talents. Seeing what other brave choices other actors are making gives me the strength to be bold in auditions and to approach roles in different kind of ways.
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Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.
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I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.
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In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.
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A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
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Folks in Washington have it all figured out - they are going to make your choices and run your life.
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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
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No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.
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Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.
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When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
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I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.
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I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.
