“Choosing what we think rather than reacting to our emotions.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Source: Rising Strong
“Choosing what we think rather than reacting to our emotions.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.”
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
Variant: Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time.
Matthew Stover book Shatterpoint
Mace Windu, p. 251
Shatterpoint (2004)
Context: It dawned on me then that Nick was proud of himself. Proud of what we had done. It may have been an unfamiliar feeling for him: that peculiarly delicious pride that comes from having taken a terrible risk to do something truly admirable. Of overcoming the instinct of self-presrvation: of fighting our fears and winning. It is the pride of discovering that one is not merely a bundle of reflexes and conditioned responses; that instead one is a thinking being, who can choose the right over the easy, and justice over safety.
“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Source: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)
“I do not choose to choose what I choose.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 39
“To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"