“The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.” IfsWantI CanLyingChoicesEnergyCan DoResourcesCommittedOur TimeSomewhere Else Author:Roger Delano Hinkins
“No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.” MotivationalChoicesNextEffortAttentionConsequenceResourcesResponsibleBeing Responsible Author:Seth Godin
“We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.” WarHardAbleAmericaChoicesStrongNationsConflictResourcesEngagedLimited ResourcesDefending America Author:Leon Panetta
“I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.” BelieveUseChoicesI BelieveRiskEconomicResourcesRewardsConvictionBurdenCustomersProfessionEntrepreneurshipCapitalistScarceRisk-takingEconomic SystemsScarce Resources Author:Gary Hamel
“Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.” WorldChoicesProcessBrainResourcesFiniteHappiness Is A ChoiceProcessors Author:Shawn Achor
“Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayShouldDoeImportantHardHelpingHandsMightChoicesRealizingDecisionResourcesGutsInternalsFamily And FriendsImportant DecisionsPros And Cons Author:Sheena Iyengar
“An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.” MindUseChoicesRaceTalkingWiseModernCivilizationResourcesCapacityArtisticOur TimeRatsAvoidingOur LoveRat RaceModern CivilizationWise Choices Book:Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down Source: Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down
“True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone? With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given?” MenGivingMindSoulBodySpiritChoicesCoursesGivenMissingInspireArmsResourcesFellowsPlanesCompanionFragileCommunionCrowdedSustainingCabinsPotencyAirships Author:Charles Lindbergh
“I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to pull from and watch - from her choice of how public she wants to be about her personal life on down. I also watched her develop from the coffee-house singer-songwriter I knew to her be to playing arenas and killing it.” WantChoicesHouseWatchesResourcesKillingCoffeeSingersTeenagerSongwritersPersonal LifeArenaSinger SongwritersClose FriendsKilling ItCoffee Houses Author:Bonnie McKee
“On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?” IfsWorldChoicesFeltMankindWasteResourcesSubstanceExhaustedFiniteConsumingProspectsMultiplyingYeastBrewersVat Author:Farley Mowat