Quotes About Choice

I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.

Do I believe in plastic surgery? Yes, if something is wrong and you can modify it. For certain people, it's right.

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

I'm so fortunate that I've chosen the right career path. Yes, perhaps I could have been out there with my own restaurant earning a load more dosh, but television has been good to me.

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.

Well it's very flattering to be on Twitter and have so many followers - but yes, it can be very unforgiving too. It is an invasion of privacy, but the choice is entirely mine.

Fate is like a train. When it flies past, you can choose if you want to get on it or not, to say no or say yes.

I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

I said no to a lot of superhero stuff. I never expected to say yes to that kind of stuff.

Yes, I sell people things they don't need. I can't, however, sell them something they don't want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to.

Initially, I used to say yes to any film without giving it a second thought, which I shouldn't have done.

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

Veterans want the choice to use age-old practices like yoga, meditation and acupuncture, but they should also benefit from scientific advances like detecting the biomarkers that will allow us to better treat the invisible wounds of war.

Normal people with normal lives are not going to ask for sugar-free yogurt. They just take the stuff with sugar in it.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.