“Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.” MenHas BeensMatterValuesChoicesAnimalPracticeVirtueMoralityOffersAcceptedRationalAlternativesCodeRationalitySuicidal Author:John Galt
“Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsDoneJobsChoicesCompanyCasesKnow HowParticularOffersDetermineFirmEmployersPrestigeProspects Book:The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories Source: The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories
“I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.” FeelsHas BeensI CanChoicesFeltPlayerFineOffersBasketballDressesCharityCodeLeagueFrustrationNbaConformityConformPaymentBasketball PlayerDonationNba PlayerDress Code Author:Calvin Ayre
“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.” ThinkingWayMayWarRealSelfFactsRealitySeemsAmericaChoicesEvilLiteratureImaginationDifferencesMoralFantasyBattleOffersEthicsRootsInstrumentsKillingMetaphorAlternativesGood And EvilRighteousHeroismImaginativeDoing GoodBrutalityExaminingSelf Righteous Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?” ChoicesAirCarOffersFairsEconomicsBreatheConsumersMotorPricingMotor Cars Book:Contributions to Modern Economics Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.” HeartChoicesFeltHeardOffersDisappointmentOddApologyCastingMisguidedHeart Felt Author:Cameron Crowe
“Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.” IfsMayMeanChoicesCausesOffers Author:Sheena Iyengar
“America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.” WorldAmericaValuesChoicesNationsMy OwnDemocracyOffersIncludingFreedom Of Choice Author:Mikhail Saakashvili
“Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.” MeanChoicesImaginationCreativityPossibilityOffersGardenInnovationSurpriseChaosSatisfactionInventionComplexityLimitlessMaking ChoicesLimitless Possibilities Author:Jane Garmey
“Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.” MenMadeChoicesSpaceSkyOffersWestWideFrontiersManhattanGridsSkyscraperOpen SpacesWild WestWide Open Spaces Author:Rem Koolhaas
“He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek in the cold to get there, the monks would offer to sell you a cup of coffee. You had a choice: There was a two-dollar cup - or a two-hundred- dollar cup. When pressed to explain the difference, the monks were reported to say, 'A hundred and ninety-eight dollars.'” LongTwoStoriesChoicesDifferencesHeardColdOffersMountainHundredSellsDollarsEightCoffeeCupsJapanNinetyMonkCoffee CupMonasteriesNinety Eight Author:Steve Perry
“Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of choice, I as a novelist am drawn to the things you can't get away from. Because much of the promise of radical self-invention, of defining yourself through this marvelous freedom of choice, it's just a lie. It's a lie that we all buy into, because it helps the economy run.” WorldSelfHelpingRunningLyingChoicesEconomyPromiseOffersIllusionInventionRadicalNovelistsGet AwayMarvelousDefiningFreedom Of ChoiceDefine Yourself Author:Jonathan Franzen
“Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.” WantTryingIdeasChoicesLeftHoursDecisionWalksFeetOffersOrdinaryCornersInvisibleWakingOverlookedOur ChoicesOpulenceActual Life Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Education does loads of things for girls that wont surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.” GivingKindDoeImportantSelfChoicesGirlTeachSelf EsteemOffersSkillsSurpriseEsteemLoadGood EducationLife SkillsImportant Life Author:Richard E. Robbins