Choice Quotes - page 56

Percy grunted. "Believe me, some days I regret the choice. Oh, you want to turn down our offer? Okay, fine! ZAP! Lose your memory! Go to Tartarus! (Rick Riordan)
I don't see that we have much choice," I said, "since we don't have anyone who can grow wings." "I will push you off this mountain," Sam warned. "All right," Blitzen decided, "let's try it. I mean the rune, not pushing Magnus off the mountain. View quote
Rick Riordan
The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience. View quote
Andrew Weil
A positive attitude is a choice, like walking to the other side of a street to avoid trouble or making a 180-degree turn when you feel you're heading in the wrong direction. View quote
Richard M. DeVos
I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence. View quote
Richard M. DeVos
We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288. View quote
Richard Paul Evans
A choice may have to be made between a biased estimator which is believed to be relatively accurate and an unbiased estimator which is demonstrably highly inefficient, and it is by no means obvious that the latter is always to be preferred. View quote
Richard Stone
And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket. View quote
Robin McKinley
I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you. View quote
Robin McKinley
Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature. (Robert McKee)
You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice! View quote
Robert Holden
It's true that a human being cannot control what happens to him. However, what we can control is how we respond to what happens to us, what we do with what happens to us. Even if the range of choice is minimal, there is always a choice. From that point of view, destiny is our battlefield. It's not a tragedy; it is what we do with it. View quote
Rosa Montero
Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day. View quote
Ruth Reichl
The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank. View quote
Simon Sinek
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck. View quote
Sarah Addison Allen
Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true. View quote
Sylvia Day
The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. "When that time comes, choose love. View quote
Cinda Williams Chima
Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice. View quote
Stuart Wilde
She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She gulped for air. "... take thee Alexander..." She gulped again. "... to be my awful wedded husband... (Susan Elizabeth Phillips)
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life. View quote
Susan Orlean
I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them. View quote
Susan Orlean
Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past. View quote
T. Harv Eker
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age. View quote
Ted Dekker