People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
I’m so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they’ve been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I’ve made. It’s been very good having them on my side.
I look to James Franco with complete admiration. He makes interesting choices. Whether right or wrong, that is up to someone else to decide, but I think what he does is brilliant.
You get to say, ‘Here’s my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,’ and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they’re all good, and I say, ‘What do you think?’ and they pick the right thing.
We all exercise agency in the choices we make.
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics – and our external ones too – the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are – as women and as mothers.
The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you’re being seen, that the choices made are informed.
I make bad choices. I’ve got such dodgy tastes in men.
I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.
We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.
You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.
I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Critics often say, ‘Oh she makes films about strong women’. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
I think we have to recognize as an industry that users have a lot more choices and can click away to a lot more media. As a result, the advertising we create really needs to be something users want to see.
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
I am incredibly lucky. I worked hard for my luck as well. I have made choices to do things because I wanted them to do them, not because they were the right thing to do.
I’m not being really intelligent in my film choices; I’m just landing the opportunity when it comes.
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can’t decide to want anything, but what you want will at least in part be a result of a series of other choices and judgments you’ve made in your life to date.
It’s all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It’s all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
My father’s peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you’ve got to have some good stuff to listen to.
Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you’ll create credit… So you reach a certain point that that you can’t do that anymore… There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?
Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.
I’ve seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
A person who’s only suffering can’t write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.
People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.
Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.
It’s quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the number of Fairtrade choices: not just staples such as coffee, tea, fresh fruits and rice, but cocoa and chocolate, herbs and spices, honey, ice cream, and jams.
People write fiction in their minds all the time – every time we read a ‘human interest’ news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we’re trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That’s a false choice. You can do both.
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.
What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we’ve ever had before.
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
Like most people, I’ve grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
It’s only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.
I have a lot of younger fans, obviously the choices I make often influence them. But having said that, it’s kind of the best motivation in the world to stay positive and make good choices.
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: ‘grace.’
We need to respect choices that women make.
There is an important message that all political leaders should be taking from the response to coronavirus, and that is that people are prepared to make hard choices for the common good.
