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• You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspiring, May, Want

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• We never make a decision. When the
  time is right, the decision makes itself.

  Byron Katie

  Time, Decision, Timing

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2010

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• If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.

  Gary Moore

  Guitar, Hands, Chocolate

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• We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

  Paul Polman

  Business, Growth, Sustainability

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• One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Decision

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• When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Children, Soul, Tears

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• I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Life, Thanksgiving, God

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• It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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• It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Time

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.100, Bantam

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• No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Religious, Religion

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• Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

  William Faulkner

  Depression, Pain, Numbness

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• The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day.

  Robin Sharma

  Quality, Tiny, Hours

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Nov 07, 2011

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• Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Strength, Power, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.604, Hamilton Books

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• Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

  Jean Rostand

  Reality, Taste, Propose

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Decisions You Make, Self

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.

  John McCain

  Mistake, Thinking, Knowing

  John McCain, Mark Salter (2005). “Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember”, Random House

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• If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

  Gerhard Richter

  Play, Important, Arbitrary

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

  Jim Wallis

  Cynicism, Our Choices

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• Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Keys, Effort, Decision

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• There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.

  Asger Jorn

  Beautiful, Real, Character

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Character, Influence, Method

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• To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.

  David Bradley

  School, Opportunity, Looks

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• An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Ability, Ability To Choose

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.

  Eric Maisel

  Moving, Book, Artist

  Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.200, New World Library

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• Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Too Much, Constructive

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