Choosing Quotes

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

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

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.