As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given. – Mary Lou Retton
As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions – prime ministers, presidents and chief executives – and so I’m all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere. – Noreena Hertz
Poll after poll shows that consumers want the right to know what’s in their food and how it’s produced. Because our food choices have such a significant impact on our lives, this is a trend that should be welcomed, not frustrated. – Mike Pompeo
I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it’s anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it’s all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices. – Niels Arden Oplev
I planned so well for my post-‘Cosby Show’ life that I don’t have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values. – Malcolm-Jamal Warner
There’s something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it’s what feeds me on stage and informs my choices. – Daniel Dae Kim
Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance. – Maiara Walsh
I see the world from the perspective of a 5’8″ person, not someone who is 6’4″. so naturally, I’m going to choose certain lens heights over and again… Sometimes nature makes choices for you. – Michael Mann
We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care. – Mitch Daniels
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question. – Neale Donald Walsch
Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice. – Michael N. Castle
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world. – Gina Prince-Bythewood
I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you’re lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It’s about what choices you make, and for me, it’s entirely instinctive. – Eddie Redmayne
The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep’s or Kate Winslet’s. It’s just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing. – Felicity Jones
We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It’s about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable. – Gary Johnson
People want to feel good about the choices they make. They want to know they’re choosing material that’s not going to harm the environment. – Franz von Holzhausen
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously. – Maggie Q
A lot of children don’t have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester. – Patti Smith
Despite the growing evidence of health benefits associated with coffee consumption, I still don’t recommend my patients drink it – not because it’s not healthy, but because there are even healthier choices. – Michael Greger
A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be. – Deepak Chopra
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments. – Phil Klay
It’s only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices. – Debbie Ford
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it’s a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being. – Nate Silver
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you’ll still see the pounds come off. – Misty May-Treanor
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies. – Connie Nielsen
I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public. – Douglas Alexander
I’d like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices. – Mary Stuart Masterson