“When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.” YearsFirstsChoicesDoorsNew YorkConsciousTheaterMusicalPerformersPigeonsMusical Theater Author:Tamara Tunie
“The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.” KnowsHumansMovingChoicesPathRightsDoorsHuman RightsDiscussionPuritySatisfyingEngagementRegimesStatus QuoDiplomacyPromotionSanctionsCondemnationIndignationNew PathsOutreach Author:Barack Obama
“Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.” SoulMightArtistChoicesDoorsObjectsLoversTasteObsessionRevealingOur Choices Author:Vince Aletti
“I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.” ThinkingWayChoicesDoorsSingersLive Your LifeWombParallelsChoices You Make Author:K. D. Lang
“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” WorldWantYearsHumansEyeTogetherChoicesCan DoHuman BeingsSimpleSpacePoorPayForeverDoorsRight NowWeaponsGunAnd LoveBiggerDefenseChanging The WorldClothingsLocksFeedingExcludedLosing YourselfLove And FearEyes Of Love Author:Bill Hicks
“What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman!” IfsWholeShowsHumorFunnyChoicesDoorsWallSittingTrainPrizeLockedMultipleToiletsSlidesAnything GoesQuizMultiple ChoiceUnveilingQuiz Show Author:Frankie Boyle
“In order to do something you've never done, you've got to become someone you've never been. I think that all of us have great potential within us, but greatness is a choice; it's not our destiny. And in the pursuit of our dreams we are introduced to trials, failures and disappointments , which take us to the door of discovery and greatness.” ThinkingDoneDreamOrderChoicesDestinyDoorsGreatnessDiscoveryDisappointmentPursuitTrialsOur DreamsOur Destiny Author:Les Brown
“Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?” WorldHardHumanityChoicesKnownOur LivesDoorsAspectPrisonIncludingScalesStaringParadiseMapsDictatorshipOur ThoughtsPonderingFascistsForksFork In The Road Author:David Icke
“Every day I get a choice. I can choose to go God's way or I can choose to go my own way or Satan's way or if I walk out of this door I don't know that I blame myself if my choice. .. because the bottom line is I want what I want what I want. ... People ask me what the greatest sin is. I feel the greatest sin is to want to be God: Pride, I want my own way. What it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ - give as much of yourself as you understand to as much of Jesus as you understand at that moment.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantGivingFeelsMeanI CanMomentsChoicesAsksJesusChristLinesMy OwnSinWalksDoorsPrideJesus ChristBlameBottomAsk MeSatanThat MomentFollowersBottom Line Author:Rick Warren
“When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I open my door here, I'm not opening into the possibility that I'm going to run into somebody or be faced with a hundred choices about what I'm going to do, or which cafe I'm going to go to, or which way to distract myself.” WayRunningChoicesCitiesDoorsPossibilityHundredNoiseOpeningCafes Author:Dani Shapiro
“People were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they had encountered 6 than if they encountered 24, so what we learned from this study was that while people were more attracted to having more options, that's what sort of got them in the door or got them to think about jam, when it came to choosing time they were actually less likely to make a choice if they had more to choose from than if they had fewer to choose from.” PeopleIfsThinkingChoicesStudyDoorsFewerJamJars Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Every time we are faced with a choice, and we are faced with them every minute of every day, we make a decision to follow its course into the future. But what of the abandoned options? Are they like unopened doors? Do alternative futures lie beyond them? How far would we wander from the course we have steered were we to go back and, just once, open Door A instead of Door B?” LyingChoicesCoursesDecisionDoorsMinutesWanderAlternativesAbandoned Author:Mark Hodder
“At this point in my career, I have the privilege of choosing my partners. In the beginning, you more or less take what comes in the door - or what matches up with your brand. But you're always subject to what's available, especially in the ski world where there are not infinite choices, especially on the fashion side.” WorldChoicesSidesCareersDoorsSubjectsFashionInfinitePrivilegeAvailablePartnersBrandsSkis Author:Bode Miller