I’m perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don’t pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I’m actually being quite greedy, because what I’m doing is essentially saying, ‘I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.’
I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it’s scary how things can go wrong. But if there’s no risk involved, it’s not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
I don’t know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It’s up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Regardless of where the offer comes from, I’ll choose characters that are inspiring and challenging.
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That’s what I choose to believe.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
I think ‘Charming Billy’ ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.
Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it’s capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I’d choose furniture.
What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
Every time I choose to do a movie, I make the decision because of what I think I can learn from it.
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Choose your love, Love your choice.
A lot of heart breaks, broken trusts have given me the perspective that you have got to choose what affects you and what does not, because it is a crazy life out there.
We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let’s get back to letting every American choose the plan that’s best for them and their family.
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
It would not be right for me to pick and choose where, when, and in what format I play for the Proteas.
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability – the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.
The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.
People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that’s what I’ve tried to do.
Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There’s a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.
If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
I have lived poverty. I didn’t choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.
I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.
I have to choose songs that represent my personality.
Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he’s growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I’d do anything to protect him.
Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don’t put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they’ll need to really pay attention to it.
I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change – mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song ‘I’m Old-Fashioned,’ as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.
Everybody has their role in the food world and what they choose to appreciate. I’m not a fine dining chef. I appreciate it. I think Thomas Keller is amazing. But I really like where I’m at; I like what I do. I like how it makes people feel.
I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn’t choose theater as a major to become an actor.
I don’t care who or what judges me, nothing’s going to stop me from living my life how I choose.
Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.
It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn’t choose to be objectified.
If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
The higher the level of people’s perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose.
We are all, right now, living the life we choose.
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.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
