#choose

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. ↗

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

#choose #great #great mind #important #life

We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal. ↗

— Patti Digh

#choose-our-own-destiny #create #keep-on-going #life

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. ↗

— Nigel Lawson

#choose #govern #unable

Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad. ↗

— Lavrenti Lopes

#also #bad #choose #color #comparison

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#choice #choose #create #freedom #oneself

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#anything #athletes #because #choose #games

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#builds #career #choose #even #foundation

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#burns #choose #concern #debt #diet

You know how you're supposed to choose between playing up your eyes or your lips? I always choose lips. I love the drama. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#between #choose #drama #eyes #how

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. ↗

— Christian Morgenstern

#choose #first #first principle #good #good mother