Ally Condie Quotes

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

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

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

I am incredibly lucky. I worked hard for my luck as well. I have made choices to do things because I wanted them to do them, not because they were the right thing to do.

You start to take those opportunities when you do get a wildcard, but also you're allowed to say no - just because you get a wildcard doesn't mean you have to say yes. Some weeks I think its OK to take a wildcard, some weeks its not.

So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

When you are free, you have no choice.

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

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