Alternatives Quotes

“Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience...

War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“Try again; you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless.”
― Matsuo Bashō

“In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.”
― McKenzie Wark

“In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.”
― Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill

“pause, ponder,consult, think through it well, understand the consequence, know the benefit and take a second look at it again for it takes a little mistake to cause a big had I know with a deep regret”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Real life, however, is very different from school sums. There is usually more than one answer. Some answers are much better than others: they cost less, are more reliable or are more easy to implement. There is no reason at all for supposing that the first answer has to be the best one.”
― Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“Success has no other shortcuts apart from the ones that tell you; control thoughts, delete negativity, alternate actions and shift attitudes to become positive! Click on passion, it opens a new window for you to sign in on time!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“it seems to me that one of the truths about history that needs to be made clear to a student or to a reader is that nothing ever had to happen the way it happened. History could have gone off in any number of different directions in any number of different ways at almost any point, just as your own life can. You never know. One thing leads to another. Nothing happens in a vacuum, Actions have consequences....

And just as we don't know how things are going to turn out for us, those who went before us didn't either. It's all too easy to stand on the mountaintop as a historian or biographer and find fault with people for why they did this or didn't do that, because we're not involved in it, we're not there inside it, we're not confronting what we don't know--as those who preceded us were.”
― David McCullough, The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

“Colonial, white supremacist organizational practices seem inevitable because they were so universally adopted over the next centuries, and they still govern the great majority of our institutions, but they were design choices. This means that other choices are available, even when they seem far-fetched. We know what spices and organizations look like, feel like, and function like when they are inspired by the colonizers’ principles of separation, competition and exploitation. How would they be different if they were based on principles like integration and interdependence, reciprocity and relationship?”
― Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

“We need to appreciate that being different is not the same as being wrong. A ‘wrong’ answer is just a different answer, a different perspective which could be used to address the issue differently. Unfortunately, our obsession with the ‘right’ answer makes it difficult to see the importance of an alternative answer.”
― Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

“Children wish, vulgar men hope and real men act immediately after considering all the alternatives.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If you excessively concentrate on a closed door, you may miss the alternative easy entries!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The wise person must always consider and reconsider all the alternatives before jumping to the final conclusion. Furthermore, the objective views are the results of our philosophical ideologies (philideos) and the definition of our terms.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle” that was “free of the fetters of capitalism.” The woman herself, when she was in college, had considered the conformist pressures of getting good grades, building a resume, and landing a job in some big corporation to be tedious and distasteful and had thought the life her husband wanted dovetailed with hers. They got married as soon as she graduated, and she got a job right after. She learned quickly that an “alternative lifestyle” meant nothing without a detailed, concrete plan, and living “free of the fetters of capitalism” meant working for places that didn’t pay their workers on time. As she worried about realizing this alternative lifestyle in the real world, she crumbled away under the pressures of working at a company in the non-profit sector that was run not by the normal labor of workers, but through their unrequited sacrifices. Meanwhile, her husband, who was her upperclassman in college but graduated later than she did, fiddled around in search of his ideal “alternative lifestyle” without ever settling down on any particular profession—the result being the twenty-million-won loan he had taken out and used up without her knowledge.”
― Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

“Attend seminars, forums, conferences, summits and sessions where interesting topics about dream fulfillment and personal branding are prioritized themes and topics. Get exposed to better ways of doing things”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“If you fail at an attempt, open your eyes to alternate approaches. If you defend your failure, you lose sight of new approaches.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Let's go to the Next Level

“Whatever we do, we do because we get something out of it. If you don't like what it is you do, if you want to change what it is you do, look at what it is that you're getting out of it. Is there another way for you to meet this need? Or, is there something you need to address and heal?”
― Akiroq Brost

“Life presents more alternatives than choices.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“When one is not able to take a decision out of many alternatives, the mind unconsciously
divides into many parts – sometimes as many as the alternatives.”
― Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

“This is the standard to determine the excellence, not the comparison to existing options. Knowing the standard, imagine two situations. Starting with 123 dishes to pick for dinner. Having no standard will lead you to compare option with option. But if it happens you have the standard, irrelevant alternatives go out of the game almost immediately. Options get compared to the standard, not other options. If options are not good enough to satisfy the standard, they get out.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“If the alternative to believing in God is to believe in men, the myth is that there’s an alternative.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are told that the way things are is the only way they can be, because every other model has supposedly already been tried, and all have failed. But these ideas about different ways of being and thinking and living did not all fail; rather, many of them fell, crushed by political violence and racial terror. Being crushed is not the same as failing, because what was crushed can be revived, reimagined anew.

— Naomi Klein, “Doppelgänger: A Trip into the Mirrorworld” (2023)”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

“The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring... because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Cheek by Jowl: Talks and Essays on How and Why Fantasy Matters

“You are right to think of these lives like a plane where you're playing tunes that aren't really you. You are forgetting who you are. You are forgetting your root life. You are forgetting what worked for you and what didn't. You are forgetting your regrets.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library