I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean, Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens, Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance, And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
I hope you dance...I hope you dance.
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance, Never settle for the path of least resistance, Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin', Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin', Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter, When you come close to sellin' out reconsider, Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance, And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
"You cannot manage your life if you do not manage your self. You cannot manage your self if you do not manage your choices. Manage your choices, and you will manage your life." - Unknown
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou
"I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude."
- Judith M. Knowlton
In the movie 'The Rock,' Hummel chose to set up a hostage situation to obtain what he perceives as justice for men that died under his command and were never recognized.
Here we go, Once upon a time not long ago, when people wore pajamas and lived life slow, When laws were stern and justice stood, and people were behavin' like they ought ta good, There lived a lil' boy who was misled, by anotha lil' boy and this is what he said: "Me, Ya, Ty, we gonna make sum cash, robbin' old folks and makin' tha dash", They did the job, money came with ease, but one couldn't stop, it's like he had a disease, He robbed another and another and a sista and her brotha, tried to rob a man who was a D.T. undercover, The cop grabbed his arm, he started acting erratic, he said "Keep still, boy, no need for static", Punched him in his belly and he gave him a slap, but little did he know the lil' boy was strapped, The kid pulled out a gun, he said "Why did ya hit me ?", the barrel was set straight for the cop's kidney, The cop got scared, the kid, he starts to figure, "I'll do years if I pull this trigga", So he cold dashed and ran around the block, cop radioes it to another lady cop, He ran by a tree, there he saw this sista, a shot for the head, he shot back but he missed her, Looked around good and from expectations, so he decided he'd head for the subway stations, But she was coming and he made a left, he was runnin' top speed till he was outta breath, Knocked an old man down and swore he killed him, then he made his move to an abandoned building, Ran up the stairs up to the top floor, opened up the door there, guess who he saw?, Dave the dope fiend shootin' dope, who don't know the meaning of water nor soap, He said "I need bullets, hurry up, run!" the dope fiend brought back a spanking shotgun, He went outside but there was cops all over, then he dipped into a car, a stolen Nova, Raced up the block doing 83, crashed into a tree near university, Escaped alive though the car was battered, rat-a-tat-tatted and all the cops scattered, Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic, Pointed at her head and he said the gun was full o' lead, he told the cops "Back off or honey here's dead", Deep in his heart he knew he was wrong, so he let the lady go and he starts to run on, Sirens sounded, he seemed astounded, before long the lil' boy got surrounded, He dropped the gun, so went the glory, and this is the way I have to end this story, He was only seventeen, in a madman's dream, the cops shot the kid, I still hear him scream, This ain't funny so don't ya dare laugh, just another case 'bout the wrong path, Straight 'n arrow or yo' soul gets cast. Good Night
"That choice, between the devil and the dream, comes up every day in different little disguises. I’m sure it comes up in every field of endeavor and every life. My advice is to look the dilemma in the face and decide what you can live with. If you can live with the devil, Vassar hasn’t sunk her teeth into your leg the way she did mine. But that conscience, that consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life. I firmly believe that this engagement in the attempt for excellence is what sustains the most well lived and satisfying, successful lives." - Meryl Streep http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0044-streep.htm
"Career decisions are never easy.... When making such an important decision it is critical to carefully consider your options, and think about whether an opportunity is right for you, your career goals, and your personal priorities." - Marillyn Hewson, 3 Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Accept Your Next Job, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-questions-ask-yourself-before-you-accept-your-next-job-hewson
Care is needed when making different types of decisions or choices.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
From the song 'Choices' by George Jones:
I've had choices since the day that I was born There were voices that told me right from wrong If I had listened, no I wouldn't be here today Living and dying with the choices I've made
I was tempted, by an early age I found I liked drinkin', oh, and I never turned it down There were loved ones but I turned them all away Now I'm living and dying with the choices I've made
I've had choices since the day that I was born There were voices that told me right from wrong If I had listened, no I wouldn't be here today Living and dying with the choices I've made
I guess I'm payin' for the things that I have done If I could go back, oh, Lord knows I'd run But I'm still losin' this game of life I play Losing and dying with the choices I've made
I've had choices since the day that I was born There were voices that told me right from wrong If I had listened, no I wouldn't be here today Living and dying with the choices I've made
A person's choices usually tell how responsible that person is.......
"You can transform reality with your very thoughts. You have a choice in every moment of your life…Every second you can choose to accept conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them." - Corry Booker, http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0080-booker.htm
"At any one moment in time you often can't see where your path is heading and logic and intellect alone won't lead you to make the right choices, won't in fact take you down the right path. You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut. One has to look beyond the immediate choices at hand and dare to dream big, dare to strive for the art of the possible, dare to truly aspire." - Carly Fiorina, http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0057-fiorina.htm
"Believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there, that you will have an impact, as a result of what you do. And you don’t need to know now what that would be or how will it happen because no one ever does." - Dick Costolo
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." - Steve Jobs
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Tony Robbins
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
From the song 'Who The Cap Fit' by Bob Marley
Man to man is so unjust, children,
Ya don't know who to trust. Your worst enemy could be your best friend, And your best friend your worse enemy.
Some will eat and drink with you, Then behind them su-su 'pon you. Only your friend know your secrets, So only he could reveal it. And who the cap fit, let them wear it!
"A careful foot can step anywhere."
- Chinese proverb
Use your time wisely....
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." - Carl Sandburg
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart." - Francis of Assisi
"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." - W. Clement Stone
"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours." - James A. Baldwin
Have a plan so that your choices will more likely "fall in line" with the plan......
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra
"Learning what to choose, and how to choose, may be the most important education you will ever receive." - Dr. Shad Helmstetter
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
- John James Ingalls
"Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go."
- C. JoyBell C.
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
- Henry David Thoreau
"When you have established that one alternative is good and the other evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil."
- Ayn Rand
LifeLessonsForAlldotcom: We sometimes choose the wrong thing due to impulses, temptation, desperation, convention etc. Is the right thing always clear or visible? Is it the voice inside of you that tells you what is right for you?
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."
- Confucius
"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."
- Wendell Phillips
We are not Gods, we are men (and women) and we are imperfect. How difficult is it for you to do right at all times?
"You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience."
- Robert E. Lee
What would you choose to do if you had God's powers?
"Just remember, you will have to answer to God tomorrow for the choices you made today. Choose wisely.
- Unknown
"You decide every day who you will and will not be. Be bold in your decision but remember, choose wisely."
- Unknown
"The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. Love or hate. To be a hero or to be a coward. Choose wisely."
- Unknown
"Everything is based upon choice. Therefore you choose the person you are and who you will become. Choose wisely."
- Unknown
Sunday, May 10, 2015
From the song 'Coming In From The Cold' by Bob Marley:
It's you, it's you, it's you I'm talking to,
Well you, it's you, it's you,
It's you I'm talking to now.
Why do you look so sad and forsaken,
Don't you know
When one door is closed,
Don't you know many more is open.
"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."
- Flora Whittemore
"The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
'I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong.'
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you-- just listen to
The voice that speaks inside."
- Shel Silverstein
"If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed."
- Dan Dierdorf
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
- Randy Pausch
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- J. K. Rowling
"Life is all about choices, choose wisely or live the rest of your life in regret."
- Ritu Ghatourey
Moms help us make good choices. Happy Mother's Day Mom!
Choices maketh man.
Theme for this week (5/10 - 5/16): Careful Choosing.
