“When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?” WorldYearsMightAblePoliticalChoicesSocialLosesCompanyOpinionSharePositionConnectionsMeaningfulPostsConsumersDominantSocial NetworkPolitical Opinions Author:Al Franken
“The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.” MenWayTwoDifferentTogetherChoicesFightingBeliefNationsDarkChanceWalksShareLandMen And WomenCloudsSocialismDifferent WaysPrizeMarxistWalks Of Life Author:Margaret Thatcher
“All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.” HumanityChoicesCommonShareIllusionChaosSensesInsanity Author:Isaac Asimov
“I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.” IfsWantGivingMindMayUseLife IsChoicesShareMinesDemandEthicsFleshPriestsFactoriesCowsWombLegislatorsUsing MeCalvesUraniumFattening Author:Marge Piercy
“What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.” WorldWantMayChoicesMoralPrinciplesGreaterNiceFailingShareTalentSucceedInventionEnterpriseBeing NiceMoral PrinciplesDexterity Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“The most important thing that I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade.” WayI CanImportantDifferentSometimesFormChoicesDecisionShareImportant ThingsDifferent WaysIrrevocablePersonal Knowledge Author:Joan Bennett Kennedy
“If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.” IfsMenShouldYearsDoeChoicesFatherTermDecisionSupportShareIndependentFinancePregnancyLiableAutonomousBiological Fathers Author:Karen DeCrow
“1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. 2. Get mad, then get over it. 3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. 4. It can be done! 5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it. 6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision. 7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours. 8. Check small things. 9. Share credit. 10. Remain calm. Be kind.” ThinkingWayLooksKindMayDoneFactsChoicesFallDecisionMorningSharePositionEgoMadCalmCarefulCreditChecksOver ItBe KindBe CarefulYou ChooseGet OverSmall ThingsAdverseGood Decision Book:My American Journey Source: My American Journey
“If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.” IfsHas BeensMatterChoicesCultureMemoriesAcceptingCuttingShareGeniusAchievementComplexesMythContrastThreadInherentTechnologicalGreat AchievementWizardryUnraveling Author:Wade Davis
“The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.” ValuesChoicesExistenceLeaderShareMinesInstitutionsInstrumentsLibraryCorePersuasionIrrelevantSaddamHusseinEvangelismAttorneyCore Values Author:Robert Hughes
“Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?” PeopleIfsWantImportantStoriesLyingChoicesPayAttentionShareListeningProudPay AttentionAshamedRough Times Author:Marge Piercy
“Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.” ArtSoulPlayUseArtistChoicesAcceptingAudienceShareColorConsciousSeriesNotesPaintRejectsWorks Of ArtSubstitutes Author:Leonard Pitts
“The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.” WayLooksBodyChoicesSupportShareYour Body Author:Lena Dunham