“All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.” TryingI CanChoicesActorsCareersInstinctGutsComparisonCareers Choices Author:Brandon Lee
“There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.” IfsThinkingFeelsTryingMindMayDoeFeelingsChoicesEvilForgetRegretLongingTiredPatientGentleDistinctionGood And EvilCherishBe PatientEccentricNever RegretLonging For God Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.” TryingMeanArtLightSpiritOrderChoicesUniverseSpeakConsciousnessHarmonyMathematicsImpressionBotherAppropriateRepresentativesOrganizeImposingArtisans Author:Robert Delaunay
“I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney general who was vehemently pro choice -- who in his or her career spent decades trying to find ways to expand the law abortion at nine months would be perfectly legal -- wouldn't you be more upset and raise more of a voice than against a nominee who was simply pro-choice?.” IfsWayTryingWould BeLawChoicesVoiceCareersMonthsVoteLet MeRaisesDecadesNineUpsetAbortionAttorneyPro LifeNine Months Author:Charles Schumer
“Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.” WayTryingChoicesDecisionEffortKeys Author:Daniel Kahneman
“Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.” GivingTryingChoicesPerfectYogaKarmaPrimariesSelflessGiverKarma YogaSelfless Giving Author:Frederick Lenz