"Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results."
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"Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice."
"I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years. Transformation doesn't happen unless you're willing: It's your choice."
"Making a Different Choice Gives You the Opportunity to Live a Different Life."
"Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice."
"Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them."
"Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found."
"In the face of such a threat, they had no other choice but to throw themselves to the far left. But now that the people are conscious of our efforts, now that they see us resolving problems, the communists are losing strength."
"You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people."
"What does it mean to regret when you have no choice?"
"Because of the Internet everybody sees the same stuff. You can buy the clothes of New York, even if you're not living there. So I think that the accessibility, in this case, drives buying choices more than anything else."
"As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that."
"The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen. That is creative living! For you, life can be a succession of glorious adventures. Or it can be a monotonous bore. Take your choice!"
"It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began."
"Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing."
"Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market."
"Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music."
"We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all."
"Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own."
"That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that."