Quotes About Choices

My dad actually was a wonderful person, and also happened to be a hunter and fisherman. And my brothers and I never would eat meat our whole lives. We just wouldn't eat it. We would refuse it. Of course, in that day and age you kind of got forced to eat it. But the minute we all became teenagers, we foreswore it.

Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. They each have their good points, but they are all incomplete in one way or another, and they'll mess you up if you center your life on any one of them to the exclusion of the others.

I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.

I could sit here and say, 'What would have happened if I hadn't made that crazy television show, if I hadn't made those crazy movies?' Well, I'd be back in Canada working at Dairy Queen.

I have been offered films as well, but it's better to do good television shows rather than a small role in a film.

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?

My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls.

Soon after 'Paruthiveeran' I was flooded with scripts that were almost the same as the award-winning film. I had offers from Malyalam, Telugu and Kannada filmmakers. But I had to be firm and in fact I realized that now I had to be more careful with my choice of films because I have raised the audience expectations.

It takes a lifetime to build a life. It only takes a second to ruin it. Do something great with your life.

Sometimes bad luck is really dumb actions or inaction. You can make your own luck by making smart decisions.

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: it's dumb, stupid, and no fun.

Some teachers think they are preparing their students for life by teaching them that the choices they have are limited. Thus the real lesson they teach is compromise: Learn to live with what you don't really like because you will have plenty of that.

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that others choose to buy.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

I did learn one valuable lesson, though. I learned that you can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.

Robert Keller

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.

As we know from life, decisions are far more difficult to make than actions are to take.

The only way to know the truth is to witness him make choices under pressure to take one action or another in the pursuit of his desire.