Choices Quotes - Page 16

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Spiritual, Journey

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.195, Macmillan

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• Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Simple, Density

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• In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.

  Robert Bateman

  Art, Clear Direction, Long

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• Positive action generates positive thinking, not the other way around. Positive action is a choice, one that can be challenging, especially for people who've experienced much suffering and pain in their lives - but it's still a choice.

  Lauren Mackler

  Pain, Positive Thinking, People

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• It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

  Bridget Riley

  Artist, Personality, Decision

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• Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process does not change the essential content of their work in art, which can only be their life.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Essentials, Doe

  Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yesterday

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.83, Mango Media Inc.

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• Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, Adversity, Two

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, Foundation, Levels

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• Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Intelligent, Capacity, Please

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• We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Abuse, Use

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1962*). “Treatise on the Love of God”, p.510, Aeterna Press

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• I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Losing, Losing Myself, Drastic

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• I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Lucky, Information, Tendencies

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• Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

  Joy Page

  Mean, Judging, Creative

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• You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

  Andrew Niccol

  Hands, Two, Embrace

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• For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.

  Pablo Picasso

  I Can

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Decision, Important, Needs

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• It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

  Roald Dahl

  Punishment, Tasks

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• The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Character, Soul, Events

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.51, Harmony

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• All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.

  Jim Carrey

  Decisions We Make, Path, Moments

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• Each brushstroke is a decision.

  Robert Motherwell

  Decision

  Robert Motherwell, Dore Ashton, Jack D. Flam, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1983). “Robert Motherwell”, Abbeville Pr

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• Every act is a visual judgement.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Judgement, Visuals

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• The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

  John Cleese

  People, Creative, Indecision

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• Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.

  John Cleese

  Taken, Order, Giving

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• Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

  Carter Heyward

  Love Is, Rational, Guile

  Carter Heyward (1984). “Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation”

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