Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.

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

There comes a turning point in the life of every person when he reflects on his journey and work and ponders on the next road to take. Is this the pinnacle, the ultimate? What next?

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

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

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher, since I so admired many of my teachers. And though I loved writing, I did not ever think of myself as a writer.

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.

Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.