Quotes About Choice

The only choice we have is to begin. And the only place to begin is where we are. Simply begin. But begin.

One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.

The linchpin has figured out that we get only a certain number of brain cycles to spend each day. Spending even one on a situation out of our control has a significant opportunity cost.

There's not a lot to say about the Cul-de-Sac except to realize that it exists and to embrace the fact that when you find one, you need to get off it, fast. That's because a dead end is keeping you from doing something else. The opportunity cost of investing your life in something that's not going to get better is just too high.

With limited time or opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top.

If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn't lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda?

Emotional labor is what you get paid to do, and one of the most difficult types of emotional labor is staring into the abyss of choice and picking a path. Your

Focus is a choice. The runner who is concentrating on how much his left toe hurts will be left in the dust by the runner who is focusing on winning. Even if the winner's toe hurts just as much. Hurt, of course, is a matter of perception. Most of what we think about is. We have a choice about where to aim the lens of our attention.

Strategic quitting is a conscious decision you make based on the choices that are available to you. If you realize you're at a dead end compared with what you could be investing in, quitting is not only a reasonable choice, it's a smart one

Pick me, pick me" acknowledges the power of the system and passes responsibility to someone else to initiate. Even better, "pick me, pick me" moves the blame from you to them. If you don't get picked, it's their fault, not yours. If you do get picked, well, they said you were good, right? Not your fault anymore. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

the magic was in the guts it took to carefully curate the customers. Choose the people you serve, choose your future.

For the rest of us, it's not about what you're born with, it's about what you do.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of. Organizations settle too. For good enough instead of best in the world. If you're not going to put in the effort to be my best possible choice, why bother?

The opportunity cost of investing your life in something that's not going to get better is too high.

Every day is a new chance to choose. Choose to change your perspective. Choose to flip the switch in your mind. Turn on the light and stop fretting about with insecurity and doubt. Choose to do your work and be free of distraction. Choose to see the best in someone

Let's define dumb as being different from stupid. Dumb means you don't know what you're supposed to know. Stupid means you know it but make bad choices. […] Dumb used to be a by-product of lack of access, bad teachers, or poor parenting. Today, dumb is a choice, one that's made by individuals who choose not to learn. If you don't know what you need to know, that's fixable. But first you have to want to fix it.

Choose your customers, choose your future.

Emotional labor is the hard work of making art, producing generosity, and exposing creativity. Working without a map involves both vision and the willingness to do something about what you see. Emotional labor is what you get paid to do, and one of the most difficult types of emotional labor is staring into the abyss of choice and picking a path.

You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to you.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one. Hiring

while luck may be more appealing than effort, you don't get to choose luck. Effort, on the other hand, is totally available, all the time.

With limited time or opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top. You're

Average feels safe, but it's not. It's invisible. It's the last choice—the path of least resistance. The temptation to be average is just another kind of quitting…the kind to be avoided. You deserve better than average.

Dac? poÈ›i încânta doar È™ase sute de oameni, cel mai bun mod de a începe este s? stabileÈ™ti pe care. Alege oamenii care vor ceea ce oferi tu. Alege oamenii cei mai deschiÈ™i s?-È›i asculte mesajul. Alege-i pe cei care le vor spune persoanelor potrivite...