Quotes About Choices

But then again, our life is what we make it, right? Bad choices. You can't blame others for that.

Don't throw good ideas away until you've considered all of your options.

Equally important to Yale's own success has been its extensive network of professional friendships throughout the world of investing. Among the very bright and well-connected, how they spend their time is always a matter of free choice because everyone has lots of alternatives about how they share insights and information—and with whom.

By relying on the decisions of others to drive portfolio choices, investors fail to take responsibility for the most fundamental fiduciary responsibility—designing a portfolio to meet institution-specific goals.

Two factors explain the individual's predicament. The first problem stems from the investment choices available to individuals. High costs and poor execution doom the vast majority of offerings. The second problem concerns responses by individuals to markets. Research shortcomings, rearview-mirror investing, and investor fickleness (in the face of both adversity and opportunity) cripple most investment programs.

since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable—if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.

The kid has to learn by his own experience how to learn to balance the short- and long-term pursuit of what he wants.' 'He must be freely enlightened to self.' 'This is the crux of the educational system you find so appalling. Not to teach what to desire. To teach how to be free. To teach how to make knowledgeable choices about pleasure and delay and the kid's overall down-the-road maximal interests.

WE ARE WHAT WE WALK BETWEEN

My toughest decisions had been whether to catch the afternoon showing of Mrs. Doubtfire or play bingo.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.

if money go before, all ways do lie open.

A world in which the choices we make do not finally matter, because our wills are already fixed beneath the weight of a crushing determinism, is not a human world.

For youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed.

But by bad courses may be understood that their events can never fall out good.

Their love was not in question. What was in question was what they would make of it.

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get.

life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get

How much easier it is to join bad companions than to shake them off!

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...

Oh, my play. It's about risk, taking chances. It's about a Jewish woman forced to make existential choices." "What's it called?" "Thus Spoke Sarah Shuster.