Top 1200 Making Good Choices Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Just trust that good things will happen if you're working hard and making plays.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view

What is a company that believes in good, clean family entertainment doing making R-rated pictures.

I like Bejoy's style of movie making, and the music is always so good in all his movies.

I believe there is a moment growing up when you build your own mood board. You do a collage - you collect a few things, a few images that will be so important for your future choices. Not only aesthetic, or what you like for dressing, but your artistic choices. The room where I put papers and pictures and posters on the walls when I was a kid, it's still very strong in my head today. This movie poster or that portrait of a girl I took from a magazine, deep inside, is inspiration that comes back all the time.

I take photos, I used to make films, I journal incessantly, and I really value the documentation of life. Because it's almost like you are making something special by wanting to make it exist in an object - on paper or even just in the computer - making these recordings, making this music.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.

Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.

It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.

The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

I enjoy making feature films, but I'd rather be in a good TV series than mediocre movies.

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

The most important thing in my life is to be the best mother that I can be to my daughter and two sons; full of blessings and love. I can guide them, pray for their goals to be achieved, and follow a good path; but ultimately it will be up to them to live their own lives and make their own choices knowing there are rewards and consequences.

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

Someone asked me when it was that I felt confident enough in my writing that I could rely on it as a career. The truth is, I never have. I'm always on the hunt for second, third, or fourth careers. Private detective and cinematographer were previous career choices, but now that I'm older I think I'd be a good portrait painter, rug merchant, or florist.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.

Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce - yes, announce - that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by... liberals.

I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

I think something that is never really spoken about is the learning process of making records - I made my first record at twenty one and learned so much about record making from that before making 'Bomb In A Birdcage' a couple of years later.

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.

Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind. We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over. We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They're making money. Everybody's making money. That's what this is all about.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

The preseason's all about getting good film out there, making the most of the opportunities that you get.

There is no harm in making people laugh by making fun of yourself. What's wrong is when people derive pleasure from making fun of others.

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

There's like a little bit of a narcissism - I think there's more than a little bit of narcissism about it, but it's just that you can become so anxious and self-obsessive about whether this thing that I'm writing is good; is this joke that I'm making good?

You can be as good as you want with your feet, but when you're making mistakes, the opinions will change immediately.

I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.