Lisa Scottoline Quotes

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

Well, there are a lot of things outside our control - outside my control. And this is true with anybody's life: You try to keep the train on a certain track, and then there are a lot of moving parts that you can't control. And that tends to make you nervous.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

Fate does not always seek our consent.

People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.

It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent.

Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.