Chooses Quotes (page 16)
![Louisa May Alcott quote: "We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a..."](/pic/396942/600x316/quotation-louisa-may-alcott-we-dont-choose-our-talents-but-we-neednt.jpg)
![Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always..."](/pic/396371/600x316/quotation-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-we-may-get-to-know-the-world-however.jpg)
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.
Jean-Paul Sartre
![Colley Cibber quote: "The happy have whole days,and those they choose.The unhappy..."](/pic/394583/600x316/quotation-colley-cibber-the-happy-have-whole-daysand-those-they.jpg)
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.
David Mamet