You Choose Quotes - Page 17

• When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life.

  Louise Hay

  Want, Angry, Greater

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• In holding your antagonist, therefore, you should hold him lightly as if your arms were nothing but chains which connect you with him, so that you may stretch or contract them at will when necessary, and pull or push him in any direction you choose. If you pull your opponent or apply your tricks on him by putting from the beginning too much strength in your arms, then you are going to contest with him by means of your power and against the principles of Judo. In doing so, you can never expect to succeed in your contest.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Mean, Principles, May

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• Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

  Henry Cloud

  Goal, Care, Values

  "The secret to making New Year's resolutions stick" by Henry Cloud, www.foxnews.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Mistakes in judgment are the best teachers in the world, and if you choose to learn from them then you will begin to trust yourself and understand that, correct or incorrect you were decisive and moved on.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Teacher, Mistake, Moved On

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• You can live each day in a world filled with 'problems,' or rise each morning and embrace a world filled with unseen solutions...eager for you to find them. The decision is yours...both worlds exist. The one you choose is the one you will create.

  Michael McMillian

  Morning, Decision, Unseen

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• Should any Iraqi officer or soldier receive an order from Saddam Hussein.... don't follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal.

  George W. Bush

  War, Order, Iraq

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• The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself. If you choose, just by virtue of being a decent person, you are entrusted with passing on something of value through a dark, crazy time-preserving your integrity, in your way, by your acts and your very breathing for those who will build again when this chaos exhausts itself.

  Michael Ventura

  Integrity, Crazy, Dark

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• When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.

  Pat Summitt

  Real, Thinking, Decision

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.161, Crown Business

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• It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

  Oprah Winfrey

  What Matters, Giving, World

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• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  Eddie Marsan

  Clever, Careers, Feet

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• I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what you choose to get out of them, and I started to collect photographs.

  Graham Nash

  Moving, Soul, Realizing

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• If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Brain, Influence, Aspect

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• I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Thinking, Special

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• However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.

  William Shenstone

  Beautiful, Distance, Eye

  William Shenstone (1775). “The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition”, p.121

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• More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice.  Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision.  And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith.  You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope.

  Jim Wallis

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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• Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.

  Seth Godin

  Path, Use, Environment

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• If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

  Muriel Spark

  Art, Trying, Patterns

  Muriel Spark (2015). “Robinson”, p.59, Canongate Books

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• A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Firsts, Retreat, Surprise

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.178, Baen Books

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• There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Practice

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• When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

  Tom Peters

  People, Path, Periods

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• It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Important, Prejudice, Facts

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• I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

  Natascha McElhone

  Responsibility, Thinking, Differences

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

  Marshall Sylver

  Responsibility, Over You, Gains

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• The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

  Andrew Tobias

  Buying, Want, Sells

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong.

  Jim George

  Spiritual, Giving, Joy

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