Quotes About Choice

When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

In this world, there are bad people and there are good people. We can either choose to celebrate the bad ones all the time, or we can celebrate the good ones.

I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.

I don't make a decision till I see fit. That's why I'm so effective. My mind isn't predetermined.

I am the kind of person if I like something I will wear it till I get bored.

You can't go forward and backwards at the same time.

Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.

I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

I sing all the time, and my co-actors from theatre arena feel that my choice of songs and timing is bad - not that I pay heed, though.

Juventus offered me the opportunity to sign in 2017 and I turned it down. I just didn't feel the timing was right.

But I do, like proper cooks, have an oven burn on my arm. I ran it under the tap for a couple of minutes but then the biscuits I'd made were cool enough to eat and I had to make a choice. Tiny scar and full belly it is then.

And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a puppy, when he was tiny himself.

I'm a big guy and I can't have any tiny tattoos.

I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it.

The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.

I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think.

I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'