Quotes & Sayings About Picking And Choosing Your Battles

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys. — James Anthony Froude

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason. — John Ortberg

I have the grace of providence to be poor. — Antonio De Oliveira Salazar

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience. — Benjamin Disraeli

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much. — Conor Oberst

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road. — Geoff Downes

That's what you do when you run out of options: you go home. — Adrian Barnes

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing. — Willem Dafoe

We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both. — Benjamin Franklin Fairless

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern ... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea. — Claire McCaskill

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver. — Steve Jobs

The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. — Terry Pratchett

Djinn were cursed with a terminal curiosity. It was often their worst weakness, and sometimes it was their downfall.
Khalil was no exception. If a door was open, he peeked through it. If it was closed, it made the peeking so much better. If the door was locked, well. There was a natural progression to this sort of thing. — Thea Harrison

This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
[Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.] — Ovid