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“My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.”

Way Choices Understanding Learning Perspective Keys Circumstances Expectations Conscious All Things Function Climate Response Inspired Acknowledge Recognizing Control Myself

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.”

Ifs Book Matter Moving Artist Choices Middle Subjects Style Calling Function Blue Sentences Commit Subject Matter One Direction

Book:Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

Source: Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

“No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and father and no man would ever conceive of those relationships as instruments of his prime function in life. Yet every woman is raised, still, to believe that the fulfillment of these relationships is her prime function in life and, what's more, her instinctive choice.”

Men Believe Doe Stills Choices Father Wish Husband Function Instruments Raised Fulfillment Prime Salt Husband And Father

Book:Essays in feminism

Source: Essays in feminism

“Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.”

“Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.”

Choices Three Function Luck Lifestyle Three Things Genetics

Author:Bill Walton

“Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.”

Form Choices Chance Fantasy Decided Function

Author:David Pye

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”

Men Want Self Moments Hands Choices Understanding Existence Fields Possibility Machines Function Infinite Slave What You Want Access Chosen Makers Infinity Self Knowledge Irrelevant

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.”

Has Beens Ideas Mother Choices Term Ability Pleasure Principles Virtue Pride Function Sexuality Denial Concrete Passive Autonomy Embryos

Author:Angela Carter

“A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.”

Feels Wells Choices Decision Brain Break Judging Habit Conscious Function Response Fixed Decision Making Routine Take Time Worn Pathways Cerebral

Author:Deepak Chopra

“the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute”

Choices Individual Identity Discovery Function Attributes

Author:Amartya Sen

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

“Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.”

Way Has Beens School Choices Difficult Ability Answers Interesting Four Succeed Function Patterns Multiple Success In Life Ability To Choose Multiple Choice

Author:David Mamet