Choices Quotes - Page 15

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection - unless you lie - in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this - It's not about not being scared - it's about being scared and doing it anyway - that's bravery.

Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.