Quotes About Choice

But in many circumstances this is a false choice for one compelling reason: If a message can't be used to make predictions or decisions, it is without value, no matter how accurate or comprehensive it is.

LET'S SUM UP WHERE we are. If you think about a normal decision process, it usually proceeds in four steps: • You encounter a choice. • You analyze your options. • You make a choice. • Then you live with it. And what we've seen is that there is a villain that afflicts each of these stages: • You encounter a choice. But narrow framing makes you miss options.

Deadlines focus our mental spotlight on a choice. They grab us by the collar and say, If you're gonna do this, you have to do it now. In

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

After age twenty-five, you're not a victim anymore — you're a volunteer.

Never choose something because it's easier.

The choice they made in the moment of my need changed something in our relationship. I no longer depended on them so completely in the future. And when I took care to guard myself from hurt, it was as much from them as from our enemies.

It's hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines. They're as difficult to disentangle as love and sorrow.

Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.

If she had another chance, she thinks, she would do it differently. But chance is a slippery customer, and she can feel Amit's hands growing cold.

Spices why must you always compare. Each desire in the world is different, as is each love. You who were born in the world's dawning know this far better than I. Answer. Weigh it yourself: To him I will give one night, to you the rest of my life, whatever you choose it to be, one hundred years on the island or a single moment, conflagration and consuming, in Shampati's fire. As

Spices why must you always compare. Each desire in the world is different, as is each love. You who were born in the world's dawning know this far better than I. Answer. Weigh it yourself: To him I will give one night, to you the rest of my life, whatever you choose it to be, one hundred years on the island or a single moment, conflagration and consuming, in Shampati's fire.

To think that I'll have to go and live with a stranger. That I'm supposed to belong to some man I haven't even met as soon as he puts a garland around my neck. Oh, why can't I just remain single? Why must I be yoked to a man like a cart to a buffalo?

It's hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines.

How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one.

The man who goes quickly by the direct road passes the man who strays from the path.

Sex is not always a choice lovingly made and enjoyed like plump well-handled self-chosen fruit teeth sinking into soft flesh in a dribble of pleasure. Nevertheless it abounds. Some because it is the truth of their being. Some to deny, negate, sate deep yearning, wordless, timeless.

We are entering an era of unprecedented choice. And thats a good thing.

Order it wrong and choice is oppressive; order it right and its liberating.

Broadly, the Long Tail is about abundance. Abundant shelf space, abundant distribution, abundant choice.

In a world of infinite choice, not context content is king.

In a world of infinite choice, context—not content—is king.

When your energy's right, work becomes easy & fun. When it's wrong, it's quite the opposite. Your choice…

We're compensated metaphysically with the absolute freedom to define and pursue whatever it is we believe will make our lives worthwhile- a dubious birthright that imparts a wearisome burden of its own. Rather like choosing one all-important meal from an infinite menu.