Lulu Wang Quotes

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.

I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

As human beings, we create belief systems that make us feel happy with the choices we make. You'd have a lot of unhappy people regretting everything if they didn't create the belief system in which they could explain all their choices and feel like they've done the right thing.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or-at the very least-why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct.

Expectation is a good thing. I think it shows you're doing a lot of good stuff. Clearly, I'd rather it to be that way than people expecting it to be the other way.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

I really believe that being positive and being happy is a choice.

One's character is reflected in their choices after all. I'm glad to have been making ones that make my heart soar.

I had that mindset that I feel that I am the best prospect in the draft, but everything happens for a reason.

My advice for parents is to support your children, make sure they are having fun. Support them and be there for them. Give them encouragement and make it a life lesson that along the way they are learning to make good decisions and do the right thing.

I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.

I'm not afraid of making big and sometimes unpopular calls if they're the right thing to do.

And I know it's an old cliche, but winning and being in a winning position breeds confidence - cliche or not, it's still true.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

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've got to have confidence that the universe is working out for you.

I feel that confidence is the essence for a good performance.

Beauty is what I believe in. I want to act and make decisions based on what I believe.

When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show the command "Walk" to the right hemisphere (the one without language), the patient will get up and start walking. If you stop him and ask why he's leaving, his left hemisphere, cooking up an answer, will say something like "I was going to get a drink of water."

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.