Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I think that too ended up affecting a lot of the different research questions that I later asked was really was about well to what extent... How do we balance choice as possibility and choice as limitations?

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

You can have it all, but not all at once.

If someone throws you the ball, you don't have to catch it.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

Concentrate: you can't have it all.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

Now I do have a choice, and I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

My range is limited.

Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Frankly, we don't have the resources to go everywhere and do everything.