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• Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

  Jules Olitski

  Decision, Vision, Made

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• Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

  Douglas Horton

  Light, Seeing, Seeing The Light

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• We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Long, People, Capes

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• Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

  Stephen Covey

  Power, Decision, Overcoming

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

  Bill Mumy

  Running, Giving, Wife

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• So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices and for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices and make friends and love well, bring art to this place and make the world better for the whole human race.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Art, Helping Others, Race

  "Is There Really a Human Race?". Book by Jamie Lee Curtis, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2006.

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• You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  "Awaken The Giant Within". Book by Tony Robbins, 1991.

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• What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, World

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• 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.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Fall, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

  Harrison Ford

  Wranglers, Levi's, Picks

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• 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.

  Jane Rule

  Broken Heart, People, Broken Promises

  Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Survival, Literature, Life Is

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• Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”

  Walden Bello

  Community, Promise, World

  Walden Bello's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

  Rose McGowan

  Actors, Wrong Choices

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• Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

  Michael Porter

  Different, Strategy, Trade

  "What is strategy?" by Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, November 1996.

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• We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

  Frank Arthur Swinnerton

  Acquaintance, Company, Superiors

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• You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2013

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• Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Teaching, Essence

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.132, Harmony

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• I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Reading, Talking, Trying

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• It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Doubt, World, Politician

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• To every man there openeth a way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, and the low soul gropes the low. And in between, on the misty flats, the rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth a high way and a low, and every man decideth the way his soul shall go.

  William Arthur Dunkerley

  Men, Soul, Way

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• Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

  Basil Hume

  Divine Order, Decision, Add

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• 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.

  W Mitchell

  Dwelling, Focus, Nine

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• In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

  Robert Orben

  Humor, Fighting, Two

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.7, Main Street Books

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• But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

  Danny Glover

  Believe, Compromise, Made

  Interview by Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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