Quotes About Choice

You can choose what you do, but you can't choose what you like to do.

Every time you break the law you pay, and every time you obey the law you pay." Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels, we all must grapple with the consequences of our Tendency—with its strengths and its weaknesses, its foibles and its frustrations.

Remind the Obliger that saying no allows him or her to say yes to work that's more important

Rebels can do anything they want to do

You can choose what you do; you can't choose what you like to do. You can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want.

I remind myself: Just because something is fun for other people doesn't mean it's fun for me—and it's a lot easier to stick to a habit that I honestly enjoy.

Although people believe they like to have lots of choice, in fact, having too many choices can be discouraging.

Happiness experts point out that merely making and sticking to a decision is a source of happiness, because it gives you a feeling of control, of efficacy, of responsibility. At times of

Perhaps, the feeling of control is an essential element of happiness - a better predictor of happiness than, say, income. Having a feeling of autonomy, of being able to choose what happens in your life or how you spend your time, is crucial.

To craft a sign that works for all Four Tendencies we should provide information, consequences, and choice.

False Choice Loophole: This is the loophole-seeking strategy I most often invoke. I pose two activities in opposition, as though I have to make an either/or decision, when in fact, the two aren't necessarily in conflict.

Novelist Jean Rhys observed, "One is born either to go with or to go against.

One-Coin" Loophole: Whether we choose to focus on the single coin or the growing heap will shape our behavior.

You can choose what you do; you can't choose what you like to do.

I did, however, vow to stop reading books that I didn't enjoy. I used to pride myself on finishing every book I started—no longer.

Keeping a good habit costs us: it may cost time, energy, and money, and it may mean forgoing pleasures and opportunities—but not keeping a good habit also has its cost. So which cost do we want to pay?

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

In a nutshell, Rebels respond best to a sequence of information, consequences, and choice. We must give Rebels the information they need to make an informed decision; alert them to the consequences of actions they might take; then allow them to choose—

I concluded that the real key to habits is decision making—or, more accurately, the lack of decision making.

I choose to be happy, in spite of whatever drama that is going on in my life.

Information, consequences, choice. Without lectures or micro-management or rescue.

Our lives are in the space between Isaiah Berlin's "We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail an irreparable loss" and Borges's Garden of Forking Paths, where every choice produces a quantum explosion of alternate future.

making. A habit requires no decision from me, because I've already decided.

A habit requires no decision from me, because I've already decided.