Guillermo del Toro Quotes

The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

The small day-to-day decisions will determine the course of your lives.

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, 'it's so daunting, how can we change the whole world?' and you don't need to do that, what you need to do is change your world a little bit, and see if you can, through example, inspire others to do the same thing.

Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think you took the right approach, then you just absorb the criticism, but you don't change your mind.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

You have not been called to change the world, but you have been called to change something.

I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.

I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

I think people do have their own minds.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.

Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.