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“The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.”

Character Choices Influence Subjects Method Representation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.”

Children Moments Certain Choices Responsibility Influence Example Aspect Insanity Your Children

Author:Andy Garcia

“Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.”

People Want Desire Choices Culture Sex Influence Media Information Safe Computer Flow Investment Consumers Corporate Range Acquisition Nuance Convergence

Book:Underworld: Picador Classic

Source: Underworld: Picador Classic

“By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways...our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself...'Are there things I'd like to change?'”

Way Looks Choices Asks Attitude Morning Influence Mets Negative Mirrors Stranger Teeth Our Family Every Morning Peers Brushes Exhibits Live Every Day

Author:Mac Anderson

“Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.”

Kids Choices Parent Influence Grew Grew Up Collections

Author:Ryan Lewis

“The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.”

Men Matter Problem Choices Challenges Influence Tasks Climate Solve Related Nutrition Mistaken Can Not Metabolism Acceleration

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.”

Way Believe Stills Certain Choices Individual Taken Influence Hero Circumstances Don't Believe Villain Wrong Way

Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.”

Giving Choices Individual Influence Circumstances Limits Negative Midst Employers Individual Choice

Author:Shawn Achor

“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.”

Men Able Faces Choices Influence Duty Claims Lays Climate Face To Face Blunders Locality

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing