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Tuesday, 7 October 2008
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"Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken." (Russell, Bertrand - Experts)

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Browse Quotations about Choice

A human being is a deciding being.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.
Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
Choice strengthens all.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Choose your love, Love your choice.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
Every choice you make has an end result.
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Every single moment of your life you must choose from a number of alternatives. What you choose determines where you will end up.
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]
I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my spaceship and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...
In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
It is always your next move.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
It is not something I must do but something I want to do
It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium.
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.
Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us --ah! what a dream, to live in that! --the other stifles us at the first breath.
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.
Refuse the evil, and choose the good. [Isaiah 7:15]
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.
The difficulty in life is the choice.
The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.