Michael Nesmith Quotes

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

Follow your heart and make it your decision.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.

A man's heart tells him his opportunities better than seven watchmen on a tower.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

Never do anything that you don't want to do. Listen to your instincts and follow it.

I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?

Wherever people find themselves in trouble, or at some kind of crossroads, the series proclaims you are free to choose. That's the deepest lesson of 'Star Wars.'

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

I believe that destiny has a big role to play in everyone's life.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else