When the options are few, we can be happy with what we choose since we are confident that it is the best possible choice for us. When the options are practically infinite, though, we believe that the perfect choice for us must be out there somewhere and that it’s our responsibility to find it. Choosing can become a lose-lose situation: if we make a choice quickly without fully exploring the available options, we’ll regret potentially missing out on something better; if we do exhaustively consider all the options, we’ll expend more effort (which won’t necessarily increase the quality of our final choice), and if we discover other good options, we may regret that we can’t choose them all.
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Related If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN If there are two options, smiling is always the best choice. CHLOE THURLOW It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND We are exploring all our options. Investors, someone who would like to acquire us or whatever. We ar... CAROLINE JAPIC Everything is open. We are going to thoroughly consider all of the options open to us. Having said t... BOB BUTCHOFSKY The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN We can all do a better job - the department, states and school districts - to make sure strong publi... CHAD COLBY We enable the computer makers to make choice those two desktop options. DAN LEACH we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... 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We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war... SAM HARRIS Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our h... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we... THOMAS S. MONSON In the spirit of a Coyote Valley that is self-sustaining, we should be exploring some of these other... LAUREL PREVETTI We want a government that is for the Palestinian people, and if we can't do that, then there are man... GHAZI HAMAD The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL If there's still a need for a runoff after the ballots are counted, we will consider our legal optio... CHRISTY SETZER What happens when hunters are doing all they can and it's still not enough? Are there other tools we... CAL DUBROCK Shawn had multiple options but this was our choice. We wanted to do the same thing we did when he si... BRIAN MACKLER In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND There are good treatments options. We can make a difference. DR. BRETT WHYTE How we treat people is always our choice, and if we choose not to be respectful, it can come back to... ALISON LEVINE We are not defined by our trials,
but by how we face them.
We are all afraid; bravery is a choice,
t... JILL ANZINGER I need resolution, because there are other options. We need to act on those options out of town. JEFFREY LORIA I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY We have analyzed all of our options for alternative crude supplies and we are confident that our alt... JEFF MORRIS We talked about our options . . . It was clear that teachers and staff in this district felt we have... LISA UPHOFF How is Life Full of Choices? When we eat too much, we make a choice to be overweight. When we drink ... SHIV KHERA This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next ste... CHUCK ARMOR Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ... ANUROOP TYAGI We haven't closed our doors to other options. We've got stability, for now, and it gives us time to ... RANDY SIMMONS Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become. CRAIG GROESCHEL It is decision time, and we need to begin to narrow down our options . . . and make what may be some... DAVID PRICE But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat... LEWIS CARROLL In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... Even if we don't want to admit it, the ability to overcome most obstacles is within our hands. We ca... MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possi... W. EDWARDS DEMING We want the company to come into our county and provide the best level of service at the lowest cost... BRIAN MOURA The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on m... RYAN LILLY Having accessible options restricts us from utilizing what we have exhaustively JACINTA MPALYENKANA A lot of what we are hearing tonight are options, and we can do without them. I'd rather see the mon... DAVE NEAL It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our... TED KULONGOSKI We explain the different options and features that are available. We tell them about deals for famil... JACKIE TUCKER When we begin to realize that we are the co-creators of our lives, we begin to understand the incorp... LINDA MCCORD It is not unreasonable for us to desire some options. Some Europeans, I know, believe it is necessar... HENRY KISSINGER Like we always said, all options are available in regards to our offer. MICHAEL GRABICKI Life is what it is. We are not the ones who designed it, but we sure can color it in the hues that w... MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug... ALDOUS HUXLEY Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhap... ECKHART TOLLE If you were stranded on an island, and had the choice of something to have what would it be? The cho... AVIS JOHN As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for ... JOHN DOOLITTLE If there is any prospect of defeating the insurgency, ... we need to make clear to the Iraqis that i... CARL LEVIN These are numbers we can hang our hats on and will help us when we discuss options using this proced... HUGH CALKINS Our goal is to make it easy for our visitors to discover some of the best of what's available, ... T... BILL WILSON HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options... BETSY DEVOS A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W... AKIROQ BROST [A:] We give our customers all their financing options, ... In the end, they make an educated decisi... AMY CLARK If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pep... TOM ROBBINS We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We will continue to consider all available options to us in order to protect the rights of Sovereign... PETER LANGERMAN If we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen option... ERIK PEVERNAGIE We are considering our options. PETER PAN
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