Quotes About Choices

The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you create a pleasing sound. A harmonic. But then start adding strings. Ten strings, a hundred strings, a thousand, a million. Because they multiply!

The strings that bind you tight to the map of your life

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday

People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them.

Be Proactive. People are responsible for their own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time, from major seasons to the individual moments in our lives. We're also living with the consequences of those choices

A menudo «lo bueno» es enemigo de «lo mejor».

until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

But you have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.

We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result

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.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law. They are out in the Circle of Concern.

if you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, it's almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day—in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life.

If we don't continually invest in improving our own PC, we severely limit our options. We're locked into our present situation

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

It is strange how youth invigorates us with energy, but denies us the wisdom to make the right choices. - Gerhard Schüb

He who runs after two hares at the same time, catches neither.

One way to look at design—any kind of design—is that it's essentially about constraints (things you have to do and things you can't do) and tradeoffs (the less-than-ideal choices you make to live within the constraints).

the main thing it usually ends up doing is revealing that the things they were arguing about weren't all that important. People often test to decide which color drapes are best, only to learn that they forgot to put windows in the room.

Steven D. Levitt

una hamburguesa con queso, como ha calculado el economista Kevin Murphy, cuesta 2,5 dólares más que una ensalada en repercusiones en la salud a largo plazo.

Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

If there is one mantra a Freak lives by, it is this: people respond to incentives.

declared preferences and revealed preferences.)