Quotes About Options

I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or guilty, or child-laden, and what I'm really thinking is, If you really got it together, the option you would choose is mine.

As long as there's choice, the end is never set.

She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer. Madonna versus whore. An option not mired in the lingering detritus of some Victorian-era dream.

The girl in 8G has no faith in herself, Marla shouts, and she's worried that as she grows older, she'll have fewer and fewer options.

She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer.

What fun would a murder mystery be if the murderer was plain to see up front? Mystery relies on feeding us options and opportunities for guessing right—and guessing way wrong. A red herring is the literary technique of boldly played misdirection—the origin of the idiom is that, if you wanted to get hounds off your scent, you could use the skin of a red herring to draw their attention, thus drawing them away from their actual target. 5

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

The second source of options is unanticipated—usually a cocktail of problems and opportunities that emerges while you are trying to implement the deliberate plan or strategy that you have decided upon. At Honda, what was unanticipated were the problems with the big bikes, the costs associated with fixing them, and the opportunity to sell the little Super Cub motorbikes.

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

and for the second time that day he blesses the certainty of airports because he can always turn around and go someplace else.

To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she would--invariably, with icy precision--plump for the former.

Organizations that pursue differentiation to stand apart from competitors tend to focus on what to offer more of. Those that pursue cost leadership tend to focus on what to offer less of. While both of these are viable strategic options, which a great many organizations currently pursue, both will keep you stuck in the red ocean, operating on your industry's existing productivity frontier.

Desperate and without other options as she'd openly admitted. As desperate as I am to have a roof

It's kind of like the chicken or the leg," Kate said.

America is all about freedom of choice.

It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

Not only the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but Wise potato chips and Utz, Little Debbie's and Hostess. Duron and the Hechinger store brand of spray paint.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.

The tickets might be returned perhaps, but where would she go?

If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.