Quotes About Choosing

For me, when I started writing, it was mostly poetry. And poetry is very visual. I feel the same way about the way that I approach direction. There might be a theme within the visuals that you're choosing that people don't consciously pick up on, but that they feel.

Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.

Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with constitutional issues but also with social issues that were unknown to the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution more than 200 years ago.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.

shall He teach in the way that he should choose. He himself shall dwell at ease . . .

You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration…just letting them drift gently past.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin' icon, you're not on the show, you know?

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

On one level, the Catawbas' participation in the Revolutionary War worked to their advantage. While most Native American nations had to face retribution for choosing the wrong side, the Catawbas fared somewhat better.

Casting is a big deal.

I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.

Objectivity means being accountablefor marks on bodies, that is, specific materializations in their differential mattering. We are responsible for the cuts that we help enact not because we do the choosing (neither do we escape responsibility because we are chosen by them), but because we are an agential part of the material becoming of the universe.

I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing.

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

The ring of keys was still in my coat pocket, and I pulled them out as I reached the door, flashed my light briefly on the lock and then started choosing keys. The second one turned the lock noiselessly. I pushed the door open easily, slipped inside, and shut it.

Be careful that the hill you die on isn't a molehill

Beautiful. Worthy of the highest love. Powerful and perfect. Beautiful is my daughter.

Judging is the cause that creates the effect of choosing.

Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.