Choices Quotes - Page 12

• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

  Richard Denney

  Book, Writing, Stories

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• Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Funny, Running, Ideas

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• I can be as contrary as I choose.

  Julian Fellowes

  Novelists, Contradictory, Contrary

  "Downton Abbey (Episode 2.4)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010-2015.

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• Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

  Jonathan Barnbrook

  Change, Power, Thinking

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• Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Reading, Men

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 10, 2013

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• Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

  Kgalema Motlanthe

  Leadership, Lying, Eye

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• In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, Brutality, Coins

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Pregnancy

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• They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.

  Miki Dora

  Life, Time, Fleeting

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• Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

  Ali MacGraw

  Life, Beauty, Hope

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• If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.

  Cyd Charisse

  Dance, Giving Up, Dancing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Life, Writing, Learning

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.9, New Society Publishers

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• Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Inspirational, Saying Yes, Choose Wisely

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• Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Fear

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 17, 2012

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• A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Happiness, Being Happy, Attitude

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• Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

  Randall Terry

  Feelings, Sometimes, Behavior

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• We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Today, Violent

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• Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.

  Edward Said

  Men, Choices Made, Historical

  Edward W. Said (2007). “The Edward Said Reader”, p.378, Vintage

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• I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.

  Elle Macpherson

  Children, Believe, Support

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• We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Moving, Evolution, Natural

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Aug 04, 2016

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• When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

  Aron Ralston

  Inspiration, Mean, Cutting

  Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

  Tom Cruise

  Money, Mean, Doe

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• ...you can make little choices that can change the world to be a better, happier, lovelier place every day

  Alicia Silverstone

  World, Littles, Youth

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• My life has become about trying to find effective ways to be as responsible with the choices I make - in food, clothing and everything else. I don't want to be responsible for the harm of any creature, person or animal.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Responsibility, Animal, Trying

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