Choices Quotes - Page 68

I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.

Convincing isn't really possible in an age of customer control. Customers hold most of the cards today. They have good visibility into their choices, and they can easily share information with each other. Not only that, they don't like to be sold. But they do like to buy. Your job shouldn't be to convince customers to buy, but to help them buy what they want.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.

Those who only seek friends without seeking to be a good friend are selfishly needy and demanding. And those who only want to be a good friend but do not wisely seek good friends are bound to be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and suffer from their foolish friend choices.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

George Washington Carver said: 'No one has the right to come into this world and go out of it without leaving distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.' So if I'm going to be remembered for something, if I have a choice, I'd rather be known for standing up for my principles than shooting a jump shot.

I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

The beauty of balance is that I can do it all and not feel bad about my choices, because every moment is an opportunity to start all over again

I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.