Quotes About Choices

I have a real problem now when I go onto Netflix: it takes me a half hour to pick something out. They've got to figure something out, whether it's their algorithm... Maybe if they had it curated like a video store: 'Will Ferrell recommends this movie' or 'Jennifer Lawrence recommends these 10 movies.'

Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.

Bad choices make good stories.

As a storyteller, I've always been fascinated with the idea of recreating this notion of choices in fiction. My dream was to put the audience in the shoes of the main protagonists, let them make their own decisions, and by doing so, let them tell their own stories.

I had some bad influences in my time and, if my parents weren't there to straighten me out, things might have gone haywire.

I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.

While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

No one is going to put rumble strips in your life for you. That is up to you. Your rumble strips may not be the same as mine, and mine may not be the same as yours. But everyone needs rumble strips. It all begins with self-leadership; before we talk about leading a church or a business, we must talk about being a leader worth following.

After I've preached the last sermon I'll ever deliver, I sit in my Audi with my dad's Bible in one hand and a Glock 17 in the other, contemplating how to get away with a robbery. Soon this gun will make me money, send me to prison or kill me. My life is now that simple.

we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it." We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. —BILL WATTERSON,

lo que he dicho es que no todo el mundo debe seguir los mismos pasos.

There are 47,000 products in the average U.S. grocery store, but only a handful of them won't make you fat.

Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path.

What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

Question Cal Suggests Asking People More Often "What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware

Life will go faster than you know. It will be tempting to live a life that impresses others.

Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

Christopher Carmichael, "You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

Fussell, Chris: "'Life is a series of choices—take accountability for yours.