Quotes About Choice

Letting go is recognizing when your need to control is controlling you and choosing to release control.

Suicide is a permanent decision to a temporary feeling.

Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.

There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself.

When we choose to love the work we do, we can catch our limit of happiness, meaning, and fulfillment every day.

We spent a lot of time talking about this choice, and we realized that as long as we are going to be at work, we might as well have the best day we can have.

Choose Your Attitude—The fish guys are aware that they choose their attitude each day. One of the fish guys said, "When you are doing what you are doing, who are you being? Are you being impatient and bored, or are you being world famous? You are going to act differently if you are being world famous." Who do we want to be while we do our work?

But to take no action is to fail for sure. I might as well get started. My first step is to choose my attitude.

First, by accepting that you choose your attitude, you demonstrate a level of personal accountability and proactivity

In itself, the apparently dualistic nature of our phenomenal world is not a problem. We can live with hot and cold, love and hate, gain a loss, light and shadow, sacred and profane. The problem is that we human beings inevitably tend to choose for one side of the polarity and against the other side, artificially attempting to split life down the middle.

Like Frost's, our job is to make choices that create the right conditions for dharma to flourish. The Gift is indestructible. It is a seed. We are not required to be God. We are not required to create the seed. Only to plant it wisely and

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and happiness.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I've narrowed it down to nobody

And it's not just Freddy to watch for in a place like this. Wishmaster could step into the passage between the two cells, use his drug dealer voice to ask her if she'd like to walk through these solid bars to freedom, and if Jade was tired enough, she might not remember to word this wish with utmost care, and end up being pulled like taffy through the steel bars. No thank you.

The greatest good, all that, which is also just a way of saying the least bad

We're not asking the real question, are we?" Letha the philosopher says, then. "What do you mean?" Jennifer asks. "Craven or Carpenter? Jason or Freddy? Psycho or Peeping Tom? Bava or Argento?

Interestingly, the word, intelligence, comes from the Latin phrase inter legere—it means, simply, "to choose.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

Okay," he said, "I'm going in." He turned to Swagger. "Sorry, old guy. A world where she dies so I can survive isn't a world I choose to live in.

I must not take joy from status or power, but from my accomplishments, and the way I chose to accomplish them.

Our worst critics prefer to stay.