#choices

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. ↗

— Peter Weir

#any #arrived #banal #become #case

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#aware #care #choices #folks #long-term

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#die #ends #lives #long #long run

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#choices #secret

So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#decision-making #comfort

We are our choices. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choice

Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#decisions #decisions

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ↗

— Bodie Thoene

#decisions #right #decisions

North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives. ↗

— Barbara Demick

#communism #communism