Quotes About Choice

Douglass's feeling of pride at choosing his own employment was soured somewhat when white laborers on the wharves threatened to quit if the boss hired a black man.

politics is then basically an act of will, not of reason.

One is born with a unique set of talents and abilities. One must choose which of those talents to nurture, which to set aside for a time, which to ignore completely. Sometimes

But we will succeed. I've seen the future, Jorj. We will succeed, because we have no other choice. -Thrawn

His chief failing is a lack of curiosity." "I'd have said no imagination." "All beings possess imagination to varying degrees," Thrawn said. "It can be encouraged and nurtured, or can sometimes shine out in moments of stress. But curiosity is a choice. Some wish to have it. Others don't.

One is born with a unique set of talents and abilities. One must choose which of those talents to nurture, which to set aside for a time, which to ignore completely.

Creo que nadie se mete en una guerra sin tener la incómoda sensación de que las cosas habrían podido solucionarse de otra manera, a pesar de que esa otra manera se haya probado y fallado.

I don't think anyone ever goes into a war without the nagging feeling that there might have been some other way.

Once you make a decision, you can never go back and change it. Sometimes, farther down the line, you have a chance to alter its effects. But the original decision is there forever.

Optimal range would have been nice, but then 'optimal' merely meant 'preferred'.

The choices of one shape the futures of all'?

A crossroad. What a pain in the ass spot to end up in. (Abarai Renji, Bleach)

Your transformations are not a disease one comes down with. It's simply that you have been given the key to a door that has appeared before you. With the key in your hands, it's up to both of you whether to open it or keep it closed. If you open the door, it is also up to you whether you set foot in there or not. - Kisuke Urahara

And so fell the sword of fate.

Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us, certain things do not.

Considerations? No thanks, Howard. That's what they make cages out of.

Take this quiz. Would you rather earn $100,000 in an office where everyone gets paid $100,000, or $80,000 in an office where everyone earns $60,000? Most people choose the latter, preferring an advantage over their peers.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

most of us can literally "choose" to be happy, if we understand the mind's thought–emotion mechanism.

Abraham Maslow, on the other hand, identified a minority of self-actualized individuals who did not act simply out of conformity to society but chose their own path and lived to fulfill their potential. This type of person was as representative of human nature as any mindless conformist.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both.

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