Top 1200 Making Choices Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite careful, quite difficult choices, but they don't make them without constraints that shape what choices are possible and provide the intensity of the push toward choosing.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they'll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they'll bring you down.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

I never covered Barack Obama watching ESPN at night, because he wasn't making life or death choices based on the basketball games.

I like to make things. I like making choices, choosing colours, evoking a spirit, a change.

I tried a juice cleanse, and it was a total disaster. For the eight hours that I lasted, I felt like I was on the brink of starvation. For me, it's about making the right choices.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

We need choices of government, just like we have choices of tables or chairs or cell phones or coffee.

I always do stories that I believe in, characters that I find interesting, and directors who I want to work with. All these factors have contributed while making choices and continue to as an actor and as a producer.

Women can be incredible role models for their kids, neighbors and communities just by making good choices in terms of what they're eating and whether they're exercising.

Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

I do believe that being in public office is all about making choices. And if I'm president, I would steer this nation in a direction where we embrace progressive values.

When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.

It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God.

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.

Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.

But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually?

Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

All elections are about choices, and good campaigns will make those choices clear.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

Middle school students are at a critical time in their lives when making good choices matters - the decisions they make in these formative years have an impact on their future success.

I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

I think if you're trying to be mindful of eating well on the road, it can be difficult no matter what. Your choices at midnight or one o'clock in some of the smaller towns when we are getting out of shows aren't going to be the best choices for eating healthy no matter what your dietary choices or restrictions are.

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.

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off a cliff and what that's done is it's polarized the industry in a way that I've never seen before where studios are making less, they're bifurcating their choices where they're either going very, very big or they're just picking up a few rights on an acquisition basis or making really small things.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy.

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

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

The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.

All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.

I've certainly had many more opportunities than I deserved, but luckily enough I ended up making the right choices.

I'm not the same girl I was five years ago. Hopefully, with the choices I'm making people will start to see that I'm not just little Gabriella.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.

We live in a society where healthy choices aren't usually the most popular choices.