Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Gore Vidal

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
Nikita Khrushchev

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
Nikita Khrushchev

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
Sonia Sotomayor

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
Marilyn vos Savant

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
Mercedes McCambridge

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
Charles Eames

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Brigham Young

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte