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Quotes About Choice

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
~ Luke Ford
You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want
~ Malala Yousafzai
Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
~ Malin Akerman
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.
~ Marianne Williamson
If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.
~ Mark Rubinstein
Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.
~ Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.
~ Maynard Webb
My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
~ Michael Caine
Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.
~ Mindy Kaling
I don't dig ditches for a living, so I don't really hate going to work. I chose this for a reason. I would much prefer to be over-worked than under-worked.
~ Natalie Zea
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
~ Nigel Rees
Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.
~ Peter Sarsgaard
I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.
~ Quentin Crisp
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
~ Ray Bradbury
I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.
~ Roddy Doyle
I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.
~ Rupert Everett
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.
~ Sandra Bullock
It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.
~ Seth
Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.
~ Seth Godin
Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.
~ Seth Godin
Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
~ Sheryl Sandberg