Quotes About Choice

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

There is no book written, no guideline yet crafted, and no class lecture devised that explains how to activate courage. Courage comes from deep within one's being. Courage is not the understanding of what is right or wrong. Rather, it is the strength to choose the right course.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

To answer your next question: boxers. Plain blue boxers. No smiley faces. No hearts.

Why do I have to follow CNN on Twitter? If I want to follow CNN, I can follow them on CNN.

Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

It clearly wasn't the best choice. I should've used two emails—one personal, one for work," she said.

Knowing what you're afraid of means you know why your pulse is racing, and that knowledge provides you with a choice: Handle the anxiety in a healthy way by identifying the cause and managing the symptoms, or handle it in an unhealthy way by running from the situation you fear.

The more you understand about anxiety, the more you will be able to control it. Remember, social anxiety is not some abstract phenomenon or indelible personality trait. It is an explainable dynamic that you can choose to control.

an understanding that choices, once made, are absulote, that the realm of freedom exists only in the present and in the future, and that more harm than good is done in reimagining that some choice in the past might have been dismissed in favour of a better option. This kind of thinking will lead only to regret, to the rotting of a man from inside out.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.

What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?

In order to this there must be something besides a general tendency to action; there must also be a particular tendency to that individual action.—If it should be asked, why the soul of man uses its activity, in such a manner as it does;

in order to act freely, we must act by chance, which is absurd, and what no man will dare to avow.

choice.—The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?

the Will (without any metaphysical refining) is, That by which the mind chooses any thing. The faculty of the Will, is that power, or principle of mind, by which it is capable of choosing: an act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice.

Present choice cannot at present choose to be otherwise: for that would be at present to choose something diverse from what is at present chosen.

That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive.

Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain.

Our cleaving to them, and having their God for our God and their people for our people, depends on our resolution and choice; and that in two respects. 1. The firmness of resolution in using means in order to it, is the way to have means effectual. There are means appointed in order to our becoming some of the true Israel and having their God for our God; and the thorough use of these means is the way to have success; but not a slack or slighty use of them.