Quotes About Choice

why make something your responsibility if it doesn't have to be?

Find a path in life that you can embrace and enjoy rather than something that you're expected to do. That's what makes life interesting.

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

In fact, the 1960s were to prove a rich source of experiments showing that the primary reward effect of dissonance in forced-compliance situations is observed only if the participants are allowed to choose whether to perform the requested act.

Cake or death?

Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.

Reagan had argued that Americans could escape poor living conditions if they so chose. All they needed to do was to "vote with their feet." They could just move along. Those who remained, he seemed to suggest, did so because they wanted to or were too lazy to aspire to something more. This was the lie.

I believe an elsewhere can and must be found here: in our efforts to refuse to accommodate and adjust to the status quo and in those very small moments when we make choices that place us outside of the norms and expectations that confine us, when we cultivate the capacity to say no. In

All you need is a second in order to succeed or fail

Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.

Are you sure? You have to be sure. I'm not saying that to cover myself, or to put the responsibility on your shoulders. It's my responsibility as much as yours. And I know that in a way no one can be sure about anything like this. I just don't know if this is the right thing, and you have to help me.

Freedom is ugly, but is much more beautiful than slavery.

There is today, every day, set before thee good and evil, life and death--choose thou. For only self can separate you from the love of the Father. For it should be manifested to thee that thou art conscious in a living world, aware of suffering, of sorrow, of joy, of pleasure. These, to be sure, are the price one pays for having will, knowledge. But let that knowledge be spent in a way and manner to help others. For as ye do to thy fellow man ye do to thy Maker.

If a client insists on getting a recommendation from you, always give him at least two alternatives so that he still has to make choice.

The point is that no matter what you do or don't do, you are sending signals; you are intervening in the situation and therefore need to be mindful of that reality. Unless you are invisible you cannot help but communicate, so your choice of communication should be based on what kind of intervention you intend.

KNOWLT HOHEIMER I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet water my heart I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary, Instead of running away and joining the army. Rather a thousand times the country jail That to lie under his marble figure with wings, And this granite pedestal Bearing the words, «Pro Patria». What do they mean, anyway?

For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

I'm inclined to think,' said Fen, 'that neither opposing nor advocating change makes much difference to the sum total of human misery. History suggests that it stays constant in quantity, if not in kind. Science rids us of plague but endows us with the atom bomb. Humanitarianism rids us of sweated labour but offers us the horrors of political agitation in its place. There's a choice of evils, but that's all.

Decisione non e' difficile, pero' si dolorosa. Tempi cambiano e noi no. Li sta nocciolo e midollo di questione.

No creo que sea el destino el que cruza vidas. Ni que las almas gemelas nazcan de a pares por ahí. La vida es mucho menos sencilla que esa lógica binaria de varitas mágicas que abren los ojos y conectan los corazones. Me gusta pensar que en mi historia con Manuel no hay un dictado del destino sino un gesto de libertad.

hay algo dentro de mí que me grita que no, que no estoy dispuesta a eso de las disyuntivas y las renuncias, porque no quiero esa libertad en la que pierdo a uno de los dos hombres de los que vivo enamorada, y no me interesa quedar como una nena caprichosa, y ya sé que la madurez es precisamente sustraernos a la inmediatez de los deseos y la dictadura de los impulsos, pero entonces me temo que nunca seré una mujer madura.

If every religious practice that was manadatory was voluntary, and every practice that was voluntary was mandatory, there would be no religions.