Quotes About Choice

I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

It's easier to get an actor when you just ask them to do a day on something rather than have them come in, audition, get picked.

I don't let everyone pick me up. I only let myself be picked up by whomever I want to be picked up by.

I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

I never nursed the ambition of being launched like a conventional heroine - instead, I picked up films which I liked and here I am.

I think as a parent, I made a choice to bring life into the world and they picked me to be their father, so I try to live beyond the expectations I have of myself.

I went off and did 'Space,' which turned out very well, and when the series was picked up, my options were to stay with 'Space' as a producer/director or go to 'The X-Files' as a producer/director.

It's human nature - we want to be chosen, we want to be picked and when there's this thing that isn't choosing you, that can affect your self-confidence and your self-worth.

The money that these baseball players are getting, I'm like, 'Man I picked the wrong sport.' But I'm having a great career. I wouldn't change it for the world.

I hate picking out clothes.

It was a difficult decision picking Nigeria over England.

If the money's equal between the Rockets and Mavericks, I think players are picking Houston. Every time.

Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

People come to me and they're like, 'You're hand picking fighters.' I don't pick my fights.

If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.

Picking up 'A Gentleman' was pretty easy. It had everything that I like watching in a film. And it has everything that audiences like to see me doing.

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

I'm not really sure what I look for when I'm picking out clothes.

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

It's a really hard decision, picking my second single.