Quotes About Choice

When you have No Deal as an option in your mind, you feel liberated because you have no need to manipulate people, to push your own agenda, to drive for what you want. You can be open. You can really try to understand the deeper issues underlying the positions.

That's right. So you have to weigh that consequence against the other consequence and make a choice. I know if it were me, I'd choose to go on the tennis trip. But never say you have to do anything.

Sometimes the most proactive thing we can do is to be happy, just to genuinely smile. Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. There are things, like the weather, that our Circle of Influence will never include. But as proactive people, we can carry our own physical or social weather with us. We can be happy and accept those things that at present we can't control, while we focus our efforts on the things that we can.

In your freedom to choose your response lies the power to achieve growth and happiness.

Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her way through or around these challenges, and I'll show you the supreme power of choice.

Our basic nature is to act, and not be acted upon. As well as enabling us to choose our response to particular circumstances, this empowers us to create circumstances. Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen.

The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility. Reactive vs. Proactive Voice There's nothing I can do vs. Let's look at our alternatives That's just the way I am vs. I can choose a different approach He makes me so mad vs. I control my own feelings They won't allow that vs. I can create an effective presentation I have to do that vs. I will choose an appropriate response I can't vs. I choose I must vs. I prefer If only vs. I will

Leí ese párrafo una y otra vez. Básicamente contenía la idea simple de que existe una brecha o un espacio entre el estímulo y la respuesta, y de que en el empleo de ese espacio está la clave de nuestro crecimiento y nuestra felicidad.

First, you are not being acted upon by other people or circumstances. You are proactively choosing what you determine to be the best alternative. You make your decision consciously and knowledgeably.

It means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.

YOUR LIFE DOESN'T JUST "HAPPEN." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you—or carelessly designed by you.

Whether you go to the concert or stay and work is really a small part of an effective decision. You might make the same choice with a number of other centers. But there are several important differences when you are coming from a principle-centered paradigm. First, you are not being acted upon by other people or circumstances. You are proactively choosing what you determine to be the best alternative. You make your decision consciously and knowledgeably.

We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so, we choose the attendant consequence. When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other

accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

As an interdependent person, I have the opportunity to share myself deeply, meaningfully, with others, and I have access to the vast resources and potential of other human beings. Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don't have the character to do it; they don't own enough of themselves.

entre el estímulo y la respuesta, el ser humano tiene la libertad interior de elegir.

Remind yourself of the gap between stimulus and response. Make a commitment to yourself to exercise your freedom to choose.

Blaming everyone and everything else for our problems and challenges may be the norm and may provide temporary relief from the pain, but it also chains us to these very problems. Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her way through or around these challenges, and I'll show you the supreme power of choice.

Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their

we also faced the reality that we had the power to choose a positive response to those circumstances and projections.

Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.