Quotes About Choice

Preferiría ser mendiga y soltera, que reina y casada. REINA ISABEL I, 1533-1603

grasping at Option A as the single right answer, true strategy is positioning yourself to be able to do A, B, or C depending

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. —Eric Hoffer

To imagine that we are not always in control of what we do is a frightening thought, but in fact it is the reality.

What was leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason?

The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.

It's like interviewing a new cleaner. Do you want someone who can give you the history of cleaning and the theory of cleaning, or do you want someone who'll just get down and clean your fucking house? They chose you because they think you'll clean their fucking house.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

I know that I am free because I alone am responsible for everything that I do.

In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

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Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

Take what you want, and pay for it.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword. --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Should and would build no bridges. -Lini

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn't mean it has to be bad.

Take what you want, and pay for it, the old saying went.

A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.

Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?

Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.