2013 TKR: Quick Quotes about choosing

Quick Quotes about Choosing
Self-help--Thinkerer

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• The reason quotes stick around is that they fit lots of things.  
• So look them over.  
• You may find one that fits you.  
• Or somebody you know

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• Choosing is the first step toward being in charge.
• If you don’t choose, something else will choose for you.  It’s your choice.
• Waiting is a choice.  Whether you intend to choose it or not.
• Insist on alternatives.  Without alternatives, you don't have a choice.
• You are what you choose to do.
• If you want motivation, make your own choice.
• Luke Skywalker:   I'll try.  Yoda:  No.  Do.  Or do not.  There is no try.

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• A person must choose.   That is the price of being a person.
• There are no simple solutions, only intelligent choices.
• You are the navigator.  Whether you choose or not.
• You will choose today.  Even if you only choose to wait.
• It is not our abilities that show what we truly are.  It is our choices.  Albus Dumbledore.
• You want your choice now to suit your needs then.

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• To seek what you want, know what you want.
• Do it now!  There may be a rule against it tomorrow.
• You can't be hopeless if you can choose.
• For every yes, there is a no.
• If it has just one side, it is not of this world.
• They also choose who only choose to wait.

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• To live is to choose.  Therefore choose to live.
• If not now, when?
• The mystery of the third way.  Not either-or.  Both.
• Moderation is fine if you don't overdo it.
• Don't just do something, sit there.
• Two kinds of people:  Those that things happen to and those that make things happen.
• A wish is a dream the mouth makes.

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• Wishing is an oral activity.
• Enough tomorrows will give you a great collection of empty yesterdays.  –Professor Harold Hill
• Those who can, do.  Those who can’t, complain.
• In the long run, it is easier to find solutions than to find excuses.
• Hoping and wishing are excuses for waiting.
• Not in our stars but in ourselves.
• There is no right or wrong, only consequences.

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• If you don’t choose your goal, you won’t know when you’ve won.
• If you are looking for a clear choice, why haven’t you already found it?
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
• Don't speak of action in the passive voice.
• Opportunity looks like work to most people. So they miss it.–Thomas A. Edison.
• We are not limited by our fears.  We are limited by our choices.

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• Can you see the main steps in some of the options?
• Don Meredith:   When ifs and buts are candy and nuts, every day will be Christmas.
• The difference between a wish and a want:  You expect to work for what you want.
• Experience is the best teacher.  And it keeps the right score.
• You have to stand for something or you will fall for anything.
• Mark Cuban:   Sometimes the best deal is the one you don't do.
• Nothing is done until someone does it.

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• Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
• A surplus of information means a shortage of attention.
• Choosing you goal is the first step to motivation.
• Most of our limitations lie in our choices rather that in our abilities.
• The greatest view is the fan of possibilities.
• What choice would best serve your long term goals?
• Does your first choice have to be final?

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• Not everything you want is worth the cost.
• What action will cost the least in time or effort?
• Do you want to take a risk on this?
• Do you need a plan for choosing?  Can you find help for planning? 
• How will your choice look five years from now?
• What choice will do most to keep your options open?

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• You can choose to defer the choice.  Is that the choice you want now?
• Do you want to be conservative this time?
• What option has the least risk?
• What will happen if you decide to do nothing?
• Do you want to make a snap decision?
• Can you make another option by combining the ones you have?

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• Which choice would you like best?  Why?
• Flip a coin.  If you don't want to flip a coin, why?
• Close your eyes.  Gather your thoughts.  Or sleep on it.
• Which choice do you really want to avoid?  Why?
• What information do you need to decide?
• Do you need any more options?

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• How can you hedge your bets?
• Maybe your objective is just to explore, to find out something.
• Where could you get more information?  Where could you look?
• Can you choose to make this a trial run?
• Who knows more about the problem than you do?
• Which choice would look best to other people?

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• Could you win the battle and lose the war?
• What would you recommend to somebody else who had this problem?
• What would be the most popular choice
• How can you keep from burning bridges behind you?
• What choice would surprise the people who know you?
• Putitoff   Do you want to put this off?  What would happen?
• Networker:  Does this situation remind you of any others?

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• Storyboarder   Imagine how things will be after you decide.
• Tooth Fairy   Check your wish list.
• Hunter:  Do something, even if it is wrong.
• Do you need more options?
• When do you have to make the decision?
• How will you feel about this next month?
• Do you have a list of your best ideas?

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