Quotes on Choice

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic.

Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.

It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'

When we feed people, we should only feed them healthy food. They go to the government because they don't have any other choices. So it's almost a betrayal when you know someone has no other choice but to eat what you give them, and you're giving them food that feeds their chronic diseases.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. It's a false choice, today more than ever.

If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

I think as much as I talk about humour being a defence mechanism, I'm also really grateful that I developed it, because I now have it as a choice, rather than a panic button. I feel like it's there if I want to use it. It's fun.

I'm not saying a housewife is in any way inferior to a workingwoman. No, she isn't. But as an activist, as a woman, I would say the choice of being a housewife or pursuing a career should be left entirely to the woman and that choice should be respected.