Quotes About Choices

Thinking continually about the potential consequences of your choices, decisions, and behaviors is one of the very best ways to determine your true priorities in your work and personal life.

Stephen Covey says, "If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

How shall we live in order to be happy?" Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.

When you choose the higher value over the lower, the more difficult over the easy, the right over the wrong, you feel good about yourself. Your self-esteem increases. You like and respect yourself more. You have a greater sense of personal pride.

Las actividades con una C son agradables de hacer, pero no tienen consecuencias, ni positivas ni negativas.

Thinking continually about the potential consequences of your choices, decisions and behaviors is one of the very best ways to determine you true priorities in your work and personal life.

It is only when you are under pressure- when you are forced to choose one way or another, to either live consistently with a value or to compromise it- that you demonstrate your true character...Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities.

the idea of eating better is do-able. While eating right is a long-term goal, eating better is something we can start today.

Even though I was appointed by the White House to be executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's agency in charge of the 2010 United States Dietary Guidelines, and even though I am a past president of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, I still don't think most nutrition education is very effective. People know that an apple is better for them than a Snickers bar, but . . . they eat the Snickers bar anyway.

Beware of the health halo. The better the food, the worse the extras. People eating 'low-fat' granola ate 21 percent more calories, and those eating 'healthy' at Subway rewarded themselves by ordering cheese, mayo, chips, and cookies. Who really overeats—the guy who knows he's eating 710 calories at McDonald's, or the woman who thinks she's eating a 350-calorie Subway meal that actually contains 500 calories?

While eating right is a long-term goal, eating better is something we can start today. Eating better entails small steps.

Moods, however, do seem to influence what we choose to eat. People in happy moods tended to prefer healthier foods, such as pizza or steak. People in sad moods were much more likely to reach for ice cream, cookies, or a bag of potato chips.2

When the poor are converted into consumers, they get more than access to products and services. They acquire the dignity of attention and choices from the private sector that were previously reserved for the middle-class and rich.

I suppose regret is an expression of humanity. Without regret . . . where does that leave us?

Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.

If you are going to do wrong, at least make sure you don't get fat from it.

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?

The world belongs to us, the wise ones, we declare...will we be pirates or captains, slumlords or godparents of time? Will we burn the furniture for heat or be good tenants?

Life is important. There is nothing to hold onto. A man that drinks is throwing his life away. Don't do it, hold on to your life. There is nothing else to hold on to...

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. You've got to be old with money because to be old without it is just too awful, you've got to be one or the other, either young or with money , you can't be old and without it. - That's the truth , Brick...

I was thinking about choices and how we make them. About how some are so easy and some so hard. I was thinking how we make some because we want to and some because we have to.

Because life's dictates did not allow for quick and easy distinctions between right and wrong or good and bad. Choices were made between shades of gray, and there was healing and harm to be weighed on both sides of each.

La vida es el momento de tomar decisiones, Walker Boh. Y la muerte es el momento de recordar lo que hemos decidido.