“Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance,… — Thomas Narofsky Copy Share Image
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
In the Now, there really is no destination. Each moment is lived for its own sake, even as you move toward whatever… — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
I've seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that's why I force myself to sit at the table, even… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The risk is only in the outcome. You're going on a journey. You're going somewhere to play. And at that time, it… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
A lot of science doesn't require big "ns" but if you're trying to understand something about human health and you're looking at… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith. I truly had no idea how I was going to bring the knowledge… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I have never had great expectations of my performance or of a film. I try not to think about the outcome. If… — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty,… — C. Lloyd Morgan Copy Share Image
[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent.… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him,… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens… — Candice S. Miller Copy Share Image
In America, we've been around for 240 years. We've had free and fair elections. We've accepted the outcomes when we may not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think we are making an assumption that that is the outcome of the negotiations. I think President Assad will be prepared… — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
The outcome of the referendum does not affect those of my officials who have British nationality, since they work for Europe and… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image