You know, you pick and choose your battles.
I'm quite good at knowing, 'This isn't right for me,' or, 'That person will be really good at singing that.'
The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.
Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.
...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.
I don't pay attention to a lot of people - I pay attention to a select few, and that's worked out well for me.
The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.
To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.
This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels
When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.
I was offered more work after the Oscar. When I was younger, I would take whatever I was offered because it was money and work and experience. In a way, choosing is the hard part. I know that's a luxury problem, but it's true. I try to go where passion takes me.
Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.
It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.
The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right.
Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.
I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.
Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire. At the end of the day, it is still a battle between good vs. crap.
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
I realized it's a wonderful quality to be able to spend your energy on people who are actually worth it.
