Sylvie Guillem Quotes

There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

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.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

I totally believe in opportunities. I don't believe in accidents. I just don't.

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

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

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

A man's character is his fate.

The fates will lead you to the future or drag you there.

It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.

People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.