Choices Quotes - Page 12

• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Life, Writing, Learning

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.9, New Society Publishers

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• In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, Brutality, Coins

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Pregnancy

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• They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.

  Miki Dora

  Life, Time, Fleeting

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• Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Inspirational, Saying Yes, Choose Wisely

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• Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Reading, Men

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 10, 2013

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• Always choose attitude over experience. Always.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Attitude, Experience

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2016

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• Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Funny, Running, Ideas

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• I can be as contrary as I choose.

  Julian Fellowes

  Novelists, Contradictory, Contrary

  "Downton Abbey (Episode 2.4)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010-2015.

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• Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

  Kgalema Motlanthe

  Leadership, Lying, Eye

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• Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

  Ali MacGraw

  Life, Beauty, Hope

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• Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

  Jonathan Barnbrook

  Change, Power, Thinking

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• If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.

  Cyd Charisse

  Dance, Giving Up, Dancing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Fear

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 17, 2012

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• There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Simple, Looks, Return

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Believe, Hands, Adults

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

  Ben Shahn

  Photography, Mediums, Feels

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• I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.

  Elle Macpherson

  Children, Believe, Support

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• We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.

  Christine Gregoire

  Thinking, Long, People

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• I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Equality, Men, Decision

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• I think that certainly my choices empower me.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Thinking, Empowering

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• My choices were never wrong.

  Anthony Anderson

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

  David Simon

  Lying, Would Be, Journalism

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• Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

  Solomon Burke

  Sometimes, Controversy, Our Choices

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