Quotes About Choice

he had sold his soul, and that is something you can never repurchase at any price.

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.

Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise," he predicted. "If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.

If you have it within your powers to summon the devil, why not summon angels instead?' Though

Miss Rand clearly states that there are only two choices in the construction of political systems: a system that respects individual rights—or all those systems which violate them.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

As he chooses, he is.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly. Master storytellers know how to squeeze life out of the least of things, while poor storytellers reduce the profound to the banal.

Sí yo fuera este personaje y en estas circunstancias nuevas, ¿qué haría?". Tras encontrar el camino hasta esa reacción y esa acción, volvemos a salir de ese punto de vista y preguntamos, "¿qué sería lo contrario?

an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

That is what freedom is—the power to choose.

Many of you were given two great gifts: your mind and your time. It is up to you to do what you please with both.

It is one option—the option most people subscribe to.

We must believe in free will. We have no choice. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

altruism is accomplished as a thoughtful choice and is guided by inner principles, not as an automatic, adaptive, or accommodative response.

In summary, people at lower levels on the scale have difficulty with decision-making; because they have less choice between thinking and feeling, more of their choices are emotionally driven.

Be sure you choose what you believe and know why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.