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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
Choices

"You're picky about the car you drive. You're picky about what you wear. You're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think."

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Roger Martin Business Consultant
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"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."

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George Will Political Commentator, Author
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"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother"

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be."

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"The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other"

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