Choosing One Quotes

#1. Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

Maynard Webb

#2. Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Paulo Coelho

#3. I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily
choosing love, then choosing it again ... how loving and being in love could be so different.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

Veronica Roth

#5. Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

Linda Chavez

#6. Choosing one thing usually doesn't mean killing all of the other options forever. Oftentimes, you can always go back and change your mind if you want. If not, and you realize the decision did not pan out the way you had hoped, you now have a lesson for future decisions.

Chris Hardwick

#7. Then again, Piper couldn't imagine choosing one demi god's life over another,

Rick Riordan

#8. The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.

Roger Martin

#9. Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

Heather Brewer

#10. The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

Donald Miller

#11. If the gods actually know our fates and still try to meddle and wage their wars in us, then there must be some purpose in our choosing one of the many paths to that end. Man must have free will, or else why would the gods themselves bother?

Kristopher Jansma

#12. it's not about what direction you should take. It's about choosing one direction and working to move forward on that path, no matter what.

Ahmad Ardalan

#13. Every choice involves some kind of pain. Choosing one path means rejecting another along with everything down it.

Jennifer Beckstrand

#14. Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.

Rolf Potts

#15. I'm not choosing one of your paths, I'm making one of my own.

Rick Riordan

#16. I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

Matisyahu

#17. I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

Rick Riordan

#18. The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Seneca.

#19. choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. Constantin's

Sylvia Plath

#20. For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There, you will find that the person who fears God will not fear anyone, or anything else. This is not living in fear. By choosing one fear, they are liberated from the many fears.

Michael Ben Zehabe

#21. We're compensated metaphysically with the absolute freedom to define and pursue whatever it is we believe will make our lives worthwhile- a dubious birthright that imparts a wearisome burden of its own. Rather like choosing one all-important meal from an infinite menu.

Chris Chester

#22. Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Jo Linsdell

#23. The true free-will ain't a matter of choosing one of many choices ...
but of creating variety of options, then deciding the best choice of all.

Toba Beta

#24. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Francine Prose

#25. If there are segregated plates of fruit, I suggest a four-to-one ratio of non-watermelon to watermelon. Look, they know you want it. YOU know you want it. So if you conspicuously avoid it, that's an admission right there: guilt by omission.

Baratunde R. Thurston

#26. Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

Bill Keller

#27. My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

Geraldine Stutz

#28. I'm a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

Angela Davis

#29. Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.

Darren Johnson

#30. I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Harvey Pekar

#31. In case you're short on definitions, here's one. Insanity: 'Destroying the very things that sustain us.' And if we're so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it's not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. We can be a victim or a creator. One takes negative memories to use as a crutch, remain the same and blame. The latter takes negative memories accepting responsibility for choosing the situation to learn, evolve and change.

Juls Amor

#33. Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him - but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them.

Gordon Dahlquist

#34. There could be nothing worse than choosing between two children. Ask me to choose between my right arm and my left and I will give you one. But ask me to choose between two of my children and my heart shatters into a thousand pieces.

Nadia Hashimi

#35. One final reason for choosing God's path is of supreme importance: It leads us home.

Billy Graham

#36. Your job is just one tiny part of your life. We talk so much about choosing jobs or selecting careers. But what if we chose a life instead?

Emily Ley

#37. I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

Chris Wooding

#38. In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.

Helen Quist Milligan

#39. I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.

Stephenie Meyer

#40. For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course, used to be careful about playing Wagner abroad, at least in some countries, choosing instead German composers who were somewhat more ... apologetic.

Alexander McCall Smith

#41. I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

Glenn Branca

#42. Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

Sheena Iyengar

#43. In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life's journey.

David O. McKay

#44. They stopped their ears and refused to listen to their ministers, and they ceased to correct and admonish one another and their children, choosing instead, greed, privacy, independence, and idolatry.

Peter Marshall

#45. Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

Sheena Iyengar

#46. Choosing to wear it is a personal journey. It is one we shouldn't judge each other for, but pray each other through.

F.A. Ibrahim

#47. Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#48. If I could have one friend,
just one in all the world,
I know that I would not seek out
a boy or pretty girl.

The friend I'd dare to choose
to stand by me each day
would be a dragon fierce enough
to scare the world away.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#49. The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.

Jean Cocteau

#50. But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

Yiyun Li

#51. If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

John Lewis Gaddis

#52. It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago
he's choosing a world in which no one has to die.

Amie Kaufman

#53. When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

Ayn Rand

#54. The Art of a Relationship Living in a city is an art, not a science. Choosing to live in a city is choosing to enter into a relationship with it. And, like any human relationship, the relationship you have with your city is one that requires nurturing, constant practice and work.

The School Of Life

#55. The one thing I have learnt and continue to learn is that choosing to give love and receive love is not so easy at times, but it is the most courageous thing you can do. Expressing

ERYKA STANTON

#56. A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

Napoleon Hill

#57. The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

Alexandra Stoddard

#58. Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

Graham Kendall

#59. Choosing battle is one thing, and quitting battle is cowardice and I can't imagine doing that

Rohit Gore

#60. Coloring excited him, not the act of filling in space, but choosing colors that no one else would select. In the green of the hills he saw red. Purple snow, green skin, silver sun. He liked the effect it had on others, that it disturbed his siblings.

Patti Smith

#61. The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Stephen Kendrick

#62. Leaders do not choose, rather they respond to God choosing them. Thus, the first responsive step of leadership is of utmost importance. It is an act of rebellion against the society of the spectacle - It is to relinquish a life of many options so that you can receive God's one option.

Mark Sayers

#63. Earmarks do not add spending the budget anymore than choosing to purchase a box of pasta instead of a pound of bananas (i.e., earmarking funds for pasta) adds to one's bill at the supermarket.

Sean Kelly

#64. Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.

Brene Brown

#65. One sacrificed for many. It's not pretty, I know, choosing who it'll be
turning the plan into people.

John Le Carre

#66. Whatever path you take today is one of your choosing, not anyone else's.

Ruth Cardello

#67. Why does it have to come down to choosing just one man, when no one man can give me everything I want?

Rebecca Warner

#68. Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

Sara Sheridan

#69. The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#70. 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 ...

Toyohiko Kagawa

#71. It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.

Sid Meier

#72. Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

Jacques Barzun

#73. And as Prince Ramil has insulted you by choosing another wife than the one you proposed for him, you'll want to cast him out too," she suggested slyly.
"Oh, undoubtedly," murmed Ramil. "Do cast me out.

Julia Golding

#74. When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Mae West

#75. He'd never thought he would feel that way again. Ready to brave any sorrow just to keep her at his side. Perhaps the impulse wasn't logical or reasoned, but it was real and true. It was choosing hope rather than despair. Seizing the one sparkling possibility in a roomful of someones.

Tessa Dare

#76. There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

Frances McDormand

#77. One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Wayne Dyer

#78. I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

ASAP Rocky

#79. What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

Julius Charles Hare

#80. He hooks a thumb in one of his belt loops and says, "How are you, Beatrice?" "Did you just call me Beatrice?" "Thought I would give it a try." He smiles. "Not good?" "Maybe on special occasions only. Initiation days, Choosing Days ...

Veronica Roth

#81. When I was younger, I didn't know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.

James Franco

#82. Whether it's choosing a career or deciding what charity to get involved with, the choice should come from your heart. Ultimately you are the one who has to get up every morning and enjoy what you are doing, so make sure it matters to you.

Dave Thomas

#83. One doesn't have the option of choosing who they fall in love with. The heart decides with a perseverance greater than human strength

K.J. Bell

#84. Dan is not the right guy or the wrong guy. He is just my guy. My husband. The one I chose on the day I chose him, and right now, I plan to go on choosing him for the rest of my life.

Kate Kerrigan

#85. Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

Joe Swanberg

#86. If you're not choosing to live life to the fullest each and every day, then you're allowing yourself to die, one missed moment at a time. I

Rachael Brownell

#87. To one's own fault, twas life's giving.
To one's understanding, twas his choosing.

Isabel Aanya Leigh

#88. Let's assume for a moment that you, Oh, do not choose God. Does this prevent Him from choosing you? I conclude, from these many verses, that it does not. Either He saves everyone or He saves no one.

Patrick Carman

#89. Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

Anne Lamott

#90. The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.

Azar Nafisi

#91. One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.

Joanie Connell

#92. You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#93. After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Nelson Mandela

#94. My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel?

Hilary Mantel

#95. Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

Jean Rostand

#96. History isn't a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others. Human

Yuval Noah Harari

#97. Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

V.S. Ramachandran

#98. I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it.

George MacDonald

#99. Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.

Richard Hamming

#100. One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies ... Be smart choosing your friends.

Ziad K. Abdelnour