Quotes About Choices

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

People underestimate the degree to which only having three or four channels changes your outlook on television; it makes everything much more memorable because there are so few other options.

Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it.

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance.

I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.

No one knows the future. I may attend someone's party today who may become an underworld don tomorrow, so how can I be blamed?

The bigger goal of giving all parents more choices is one that will have to be discussed and undoubtedly roundly debated, but we are going to have to continue to build the case. The momentum is there on the state level in many states. That's where the energy needs to be harnessed in a new way.

The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.

Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

How did it happen that an enlightened country like Germany was pulled into Nazism? That question has occupied me since 'The Tin Drum,' my first book. The story also shows that we can never know how a person's life will unfold; there is no guarantee that a person will do what is right and avoid what is not right.

Unfortunately, life unfolds as it does, and you can't do everything at the same time, and you can't do some things if you can't spend the time.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

He is the King with your consent, stop blaming and start making better choices.

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

ON LIVING LIFE WISELY - To make the right choices, you have to be at peace with yourself.

In The End We Are Our Choices_nickc

The true character of a man is not seen through his choices, but the passion in his heart.

In the end, we always regret the life we failed to live.

Your life is your story, so make choices that will write it the way you want it to be written

There are many good things in the world, but not all of them benefit you. Focus keeps you on the path of what is right and away from other options.

Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.Wisdom, like its rewards, is great.