Quotes About Volition

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter," I told her, and she said, "Then I would never utter another word again." "You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do." "Then I would never do anything again.

I have no choice, which is the best kind of choice.

There are those who are born, those who are made, and then there are ones like this guy, the kind who choose.

Your chance; Is Your Choice....

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

The art of strategic decision- making includes a witty leap forward with high volition.

I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that really wanted them at a fair price.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Your greatest power is your capacity to choose.

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

We all choose the life we lead. – Christopher Keller

Unlike infinite play, finite play is limited from without; like infinite play, those limitations must be chosen by the player since no one is under any necessity to play a finite game. Fields of play simply do not impose themselves on us. Therefore, all the limitations of finite play are self-limitations.

Fields of play simply do not impose themselves on us. Therefore, all the limitations of finite play are self-limitations.

There is no finite game unless the players freely choose to play it. No one can play who is forced to play. It is an invariable principle of all play, finite and infinite, that whoever plays, plays freely. Whoever must play, cannot play. 3

Choose? When do I ever choose? Have I ever chosen?

The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules

been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics—as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules

I think, Madame, that your strength is in your will—not in your arm.

When a guy comes unofficially, then he, to me, is sending you a message that, 'You know what? Hey, I'm interested in Clemson.' Now, he may hate it when he gets here. But at least he came on his own. That's just my personal philosophy.

I like to pick my causes and not be forced into doing something.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

The discovery that some actions are not as freely chosen as we may have thought does not take us to the conclusion that no action is freely chosen. Degrees of freedom imply freedom.