Quotes About Choices

Humans respond to incentives.

there is one mantra a Freak lives by, it is this: people respond to incentives. As utterly obvious as this point may seem, we are amazed at how frequently people forget it, and how often it leads to their undoing. Understanding the incentives of all the players in a given scenario is a fundamental step in solving any problem.

But if you want to think like a Freak, you must learn to be a master of incentives—the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: "People respond to incentives." The rest is commentary.

People respond to incentives, although not necessarily in ways that are predictor manifest. Therefore, one of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences." ??SuperFreakonomics??

We can make choices that leave us unhappy in the short term but fulfilled over the course of a life, such as raising a child, writing a book, or fighting for a worthy cause.

Young pregnant women who opt for abortions get better grades, are less likely to be on welfare, and are more likely to finish school than their counterparts who have miscarriages or carry their pregnancies to term.

And according to a joke that was told many times in 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton were being driven through her hometown when Hillary spotted an old boyfriend pumping gas. If you hadn' married me, said Bill, you'd be the wife of a gas station attendant. If I hadn't married you, replied Hillary, he would be president.

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

I admired those girls who did Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and Victoria's Secret. I love looking at them too, but I never went in that direction. I just stayed in fashion.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?

Go into the heart of love, and come from that place in all your choices and decisions, and you will find peace.

Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I'll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.