Choices Quotes - Page 83

Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

We've learned something about President-elect [Donald] Trump's choice for secretary of defense. Lawmakers in Congress intend to proper debate over whether retired General James Mattis meets a requirement for civilian control of the military.

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

You have to always look ahead, always be positive. It's your choice, your destiny. You have to enjoy life.

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

Every morning we have a choice -- forget our dreams or live them.

Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.

I learned, having played Marcia Clark, what the value of that is in your life because it can affect everything, every choice you make, the way you deal with a stranger on the street, or your best friend or lover. It's a powerful thing to know yourself and to have the commitment and the courage to let that be your guide.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.