Quotes About Options

The options are really only two: 1.) wait and hope that over a hundred years or so America becomes a Muslim state; or 2.) take America out. There are no other options for radical Jihadists. Given the fact that Jihadists apparently have the resources to take America out, option 2 will clearly be most attractive and doable and much quicker. It would be better for Americans if there were a third option, but that's just not reality. America is in deadly peril from radical Muslim extremists.

The possibilities were too varied to allow reasonable planning.

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.

All I meant was we all make choices in life. I don't think your mom made bad choices. It's just...if you make a left turn, you can't make a right turn at the same time

Our daily lives have a kaleidoscopic quality, a feeling of walking down a breakfast buffet and spooning out things onto your plate. And there's a lot to eat at this brunch of experience. Too many pineapple rings, too many sausages, too much syrup.

We have annexed the future into the present, as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us. Options multiply around us, and we live in an almost infantile world where any demand, any possibility, whether for life-styles, travel, sexual roles and identities, can be satisfied instantly.

Each night ought to have its menu.

Together they would seek out those facing difficult decisions and show them outcomes to their choices. "Wait!" she cried, inside the mirror. "What does that mean?

You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds.

I'd found my path. I might not know the exact twists and turns it would take, but that was part of what I'd learned. Options changed. Needs changed. I could wing it a little. The important thing was seeing the overall picture. The forest.

Às vezes não é divertido fazer escolhas. Algumas vezes se trata de escolher entre o menor dos dois males.

Quite simply, as a generation, we had too many choices. And when you have a choice, you want to make the right one, especially if you have great expectations.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

government, in the words of one of the group, J. K. Galbraith, was rarely more than a choice between "the disastrous and the unpalatable.

There had been studies years ago that showed that when you presented consumers with multifarious choices—like, say, fifteen different types and brands of jelly—they had a harder time deciding, took longer to make up their minds, and were less satisfied with their ultimate selection than those who'd chosen from a narrower band of options. Elayah feared buying the wrong jelly. Only the jelly was her life.

The more options there are, the easier it is to regret anything at all that is disappointing about the option that you chose.

Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.

On the other hand, the fact that some choice is good doesn't necessarily mean that more choice is better.

The existence of multiple alternatives makes it easy for us to imagine alternatives that don't exist—alternatives that combine the attractive features of the ones that do exist. And to the extent that we engage our imaginations in this way, we will be even less satisfied with the alternative we end up choosing. So, once again, a greater variety of choices actually makes us feel worse.

Most good decisions will involve these steps: Figure out your goal or goals. Evaluate the importance of each goal. Array the options. Evaluate how likely each of the options is to meet your goals. Pick the winning option. Later use the consequences of your choice to modify your goals, the importance you assign them, and the way you evaluate future possibilities.

Buying jeans is a trivial matter, but it suggests a much larger theme we will pursue throughout this book, which is this: When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable.

You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.

You have to be able to analyse things well. Before I receive a pass, I always look to see what options I have.

I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.