“Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?” ThinkingWaySometimesWholeArtistChoicesCreativeExampleAssumingStoresVideoMagazinesDirtyGroceriesGrocery StoresChapsTime Magazine Author:Christina Aguilera
“The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the exception, with no taboos, no a priori norms (‘human rights,’ ‘democracy’), respect for which would prevent us from ‘resignifying’ terror, the ruthless exercise of power, the spirit of sacrifice … if this radical choice is decried by some bleeding-heart liberals as Linksfaschismus, so be it!” IfsHumansHeartPoliticalSpiritChoicesDemocracyRightsImpossibleSacrificeExerciseAssumingHuman RightsTerrorRadicalExceptionRealisticNormRuthlessTabooBleedingUniversalityBleeding Heart Author:Slavoj Žižek
“People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.” PeopleMightChoicesGirlPoorAssumingKneesWornRejectedSinglesBachelorsTrousersUnmarriedSpinsters Author:Jilly Cooper
“Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.” LifeWellsPersonsActionChoicesChangeAssumingShouldersLife ChangingBehaveAccountabilityMaking ChangesTrust Others Book:Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery Source: Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery
“I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.” PeopleIfsWantKindPersonsI CanIdeasChoicesForceDecisionPossibilityAssumingChosenActivist Author:Gloria Steinem
“I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that those choices have consequences, not just for ourselves, but for others. We must assume responsibility for those consequences.” ChoicesResponsibilityConsequenceAssuming Author:John Sheridan