Choices Quotes - Page 33

• Simply stated, testimony-real testimony, born of the Spirit and confirmed by the Holy Ghost-changes lives. It changes how you think and what you do. It changes what you say. It affects every priority you set and every choice you make.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Real, Life Changing, Thinking

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• Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

  Charles Stanley

  Disappointment, Discouraged, Discouragement

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• (Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

  Charles Stanley

  Doors, Discouragement, Deals

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• Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

  George W. Bush

  Community, Democracy, Tactics

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Peace, Discovery, Decision

  "Years of the Modern". Book by by J.W. Chase, 1949.

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• Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political control limits the options. The best recipe is adaptive efficiency coping with novel uncertainty in a non-ergodic world, the maintenance of institutions which enable trial & error experiment to occur, and an effective means of eliminating unsuccessful solutions

  Douglass North

  Mean, Errors, Keys

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• The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change

  Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

  Taken, Entrepreneur, Decision

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• The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

  James C. Collins

  Luck, Critical

  "Great By Choice". Book by James C. Collins, 2011.

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• The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders.

  Mel Karmazin

  Mergers, Economy, Pending

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• You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to go back and make Booty Call 7.

  Jamie Foxx

  Success, Commitment, Responsibility

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• Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

  Gordon Ramsay

  Success, Wine, Pages

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• A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

  Robert De Niro

  Success, Ideas, Important

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• Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping mechanically into this or that sub-personality. Thus we become able to identify with each part of our being as we wish. We can have more choice. It is the difference between being impotently transported by a roller coaster and, instead, driving a car and being able to choose which way to go and for what purpose to make the journey.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Motivational, Journey, Differences

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• It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.

  Barack Obama

  Environment, Prosperity, Economy

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• The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans would have rejected as absurd - persists today as the ethical basis of western law and politics. Our secularized western idea of democratic society owes much to that early Christian vision of a new society - a society no longer formed by the natural bonds of family, tribe, or nation but by the voluntary choice of its members.

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Women, Law

  Elaine Pagels (2011). “Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity”, p.81, Vintage

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• No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

  Jim Butcher

  Hero, Tyrants, Mind

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• The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

  Boy George

  Believe, Goal, Satisfied

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• It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

  Noel-Antoine Pluche

  Mother, Mean, Science

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• If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices:
  1-Totally accept it.
  2- Change it.
  3-Remove myself from the situation.
  That is taking responsibility for my life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Three, Climate Change

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• What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make

  Phil Harding

  Children, Thinking, Car

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• Life is simple: Make choices and don't look back.

  Sung Kang

  Life, Regret, Simple

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• In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

  William Feather

  Education, Mean, People

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• Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

  Christopher Reeve

  Pain, Misery, Inevitable

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• Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dare, Courses

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• Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Views, Conflict, Economics

  "An essay on the nature & significance of economic science".

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