Quotes About Choice

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: 'Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee' (Moses 3:17). You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. 'Deny yourselves of all ungodliness' (Moroni 10:32).

When we learn to live in the present we are no longer chained to the past. We say to each other: "I am a being who notices. I have a particular psychological history but it doesn't have to dictate the rest of my life. I can choose how I live, rather than just react from my past the rest of my life." If people don't like that, we saym "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!

Truthfulness about beliefs sets you free from unconscious domination by beliefs you have come to think are reality. Then, once you are free of the illusion that beliefs are real, you can choose to be consciously dominated by beliefs you know are not real.

I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

Remember, happiness and negativity are largely self-fulfilling prophecies. We see whatever we choose to project on the world around us, and that reflects back to us like a huge movie screen. We are, then, at once the projectionist, the actor, and the audience in this movie called Life.

In a world where consumers had limited choice, you needed to compete for locations," says Ross, who went on to cofound eCommera, a British e-commerce advisory firm. "But in a world where consumers have unlimited choice, you need to compete for attention. And this requires something more than selling other people's products.

If I have to choose between agreement and conflict, I'll take conflict every time," Bezos often said. "It always yields a better result.

I have to choose between agreement and conflict, I'll take conflict every time," Bezos often said. "It always yields a better result.

series of choices

regret minimization framework

The butterfly effect. Change one thing, you change everything.

Let her go? What kind of crap is that? She's eighteen, Myron. That makes her an adult. She asked you for a ride. You gallantly—and stupidly, I might add—gave her one. That's it." "That's not it.

She wanted to cry again. She wanted to do nothing and forget those two calm strangers had ever said anything to her. But she had no choice now, did she? The secret had been thrust in her face. She couldn't put that horse back in the barn, to mix her metaphors. It was a parental paradox probably as old as time: She didn't want to know, but she did want to know. When

You can't ride two horses with one behind.

You show me someone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, I'll show you a pervert!

I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.

I can tell you. In New York you are your own person. You may reach out and embrace all of Manhattan in sweet aloneness, or you can go to hell if you want to.

but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

Atticus says you can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.