Quotes About Choice

The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.

Failure to make a decision was in itself a decision—he

Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

There are some things no one can bear. I meddled in all the possible futures I could create until, finally, they created me.

they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice? He

he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." —

Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind.

to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that." Jessica

Jessica placed her palms against her cheeks, began the ritual breathing that stilled emotion and clarified the mind, then bent forward from the waist in the devotional exercise that prepared the body for the mind's demands. Paul's choice of this Cave of Birds as his command post could not be questioned, she knew.

Choose a good worm," she said, giving him the Fremen words of parting

Bila je to stvar vjere. Stvari su bile takve, jer ih je vjernik odabrao takvima vidjeti.

Leadership and our dependence on it (how and why we choose particular leaders) is a much misunderstood historical phenomenon.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

Per lui, ogni goccia che cadeva era un attimo che moriva. Sentiva il tempo scorrere dentro di lui, e ogni istante non poteva esser più ricatturato. Sentì il bisogno di prendere una decisione, ma non aveva la forza di muoversi.

It is the river, Leto thought. If I turn, I will see the thing that I have done.

Death is a very personal thing. I will seldom interfere with it.

O filho que se recusa a seguir jornada sob a tutela do pai constitui o símbolo da mais peculiar capacidade humana. Não tenho de ser o que meu pai foi. Não tenho de obedecer às regras do meu pai e nem acreditar em tudo que ele acreditou. É minha força como humano poder fazer minhas próprias escolhas a respeito daquilo em que acreditar ou não, a respeito do que ser e do que não ser.

He knew this was among the alternatives today, a fact along lines of the future radiating from this position in time-space.

You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.