David Guterson Quotes

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

You ask me why I air your dirty laundry, but you do not ask yourself why you soil it to begin with.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

People are decisions and actions.

I've learned in my life that I have to focus on the things that I can control and what I can control is what comes out of my mouth and how I respond to people.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

Our response to an offense determines our future.

In dreams begins responsiblities.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

You have to choose your future regrets.

I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.