Leon Spinks Quotes

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I want to go out on my terms.

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.