Quotes About Choice

So it is that once a person has settled on the question as to what is wrong, the choice of cures is limited.

Provare dolore è naturale. Superarlo è una questione di scelta.

Flexibility and choice for workers create higher levels of trust, ownership of work, and productivity among knowledge workers than work arrangements defined by constant monitoring and set hours and locations.

A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.

This, finally, is the model of all radicalism, in the grip of which men reenact the fall of man as adults so often reenact their childhood traumas. Radicals transgress the paradox of virtue because they claim the knowledge of good and evil for themselves and strip the power to freely choose virtue from others. In this way, they transform their imagined paradise into a living hell.

No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

In order to follow your heart, one must do the wrong thing

Did you ever have the problem where you don't want to go where you're supposed to be, but you can't go where you want to be?

Lo que cuenta no es dónde empiezas, sino dónde decides terminar.

En la vida se tienen pretextos o resultados. Hay quienes piensan que ambas cosas valen lo mismo.

There's a clarity that arrives when life forces you into a binary situation.

Damian..." "Yes?" "Where are you?" "Wherever you want me to be." "I'll leave the door unlocked.

Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to.

I committed murder. That doesn't weigh heavily on me. I believe I made the morally correct choice.

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

If people wish to love a 7th century preacher more than their own families, that's up to them, but nobody else is obliged to take it seriously.

On Election Day, we select our representatives by secret ballot, and we choose our candidates based on their ability to protect our individual rights, not the rights of the group of people with which we most closely identify.

Only problem is, we the people are not asked to choose liberty or security. In fact, we the people are often misled to believe that the only way to protect the homeland is by acquiescing, by placing our freedoms at the feet of our protectors.

I]t is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

Wellington was even harsher, calling Lowe 'a very bad choice; he was a man wanting in education and judgment. He was a stupid man, he knew nothing at all of the world, and like all men who knew nothing of the world, he was suspicious and jealous.

la vida de todo hombre se dirime en la encrucijada del Pensamiento o la Acción».

Because it is easier to monitor something with which you are familiar, if you have a choice you should delegate those activities you know best. But recall the pencil experiment and understand before the fact that this will very likely go against your emotional grain.

Finally, remember that by saying "yes"—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying "no" to something else. Each time you make a commitment, you forfeit your chance to commit to something else.

Remember too that your time is your one finite resource, and when you say "yes" to one thing you are inevitably saying "no" to another.