Marcus Buckingham Quotes

You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

The more choices you have--the more options you have, the better off you are.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

We ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives.

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.

As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

Choice is our point of power.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.