Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you’re conscious of the other side’s posture, mannerisms, and word choices – and the more you subtly reflect those back – the more accurate you’ll be at taking their perspective. – Daniel H. Pink
Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle activities, including, and clearly most importantly, dietary choices. – David Perlmutter
Had Rumsfeld said at any time ‘get me a report on what’s going on’, he could have had it. You’re right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with. – Peter Singer
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. – David Korten
Critics often say, ‘Oh she makes films about strong women’. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make. – Gillian Armstrong
Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother’s firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears. – Mary Gaitskill
You always pray for a healthy child, and in this situation, Naieya was born with Spina Bifida… We had choices on the table, and choices to terminate the pregnancy. We could have went on with our lives, and that would have been it, but we decided to take on the challenge. – Deontay Wilder
You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. – Deepak Chopra
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe. – Phil McGraw
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices – and in particular, difficult cuts. – David Benioff
When I create a character, particularly my central character, I want someone who is interesting and feels real and who might have quite a few virtues but is unlikely to be perfect, who hasn’t necessarily made all the right choices. – Nick Earls
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she’s made and obviously wanting more. It’s classic. – Parker Posey
Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people’s choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming. – Nick Harkaway
I eventually realized that good things wouldn’t happen to me if I didn’t make the right choices. – Melissa Marr
Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one’s own. – Pope Benedict XVI
We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn’t include government-run health care. – Marsha Blackburn
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. – Michael Mina
No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you. – Neve Campbell
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again. – Pat Riley
If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices. – Michael Schenker
There’s something about seeing a movie that you like, and being able to see the scenes that didn’t make it, just as a window into the process of how choices are made and how a movie is made. To me, the idea of getting to have the scenes on the DVD is very exciting. – Matt Reeves
I wouldn’t change a thing about what I’ve done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment. – Minnie Driver
You can’t make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what’s honest for you. – Nicolas Cage
I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us. – Joel Osteen
Was there ever in anyone’s life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? – Joan Didion
No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can’t decide to want anything, but what you want will at least in part be a result of a series of other choices and judgments you’ve made in your life to date. – Julian Baggini
