Quotes About Contingency

As Eisenhower said (in a very different context to be sure, but the point applies here as well), "plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.

Some things you want to make sure your teammates have access to if anything bad should happen to you.

Joy being of God was a living thing, a fountain not a cistern, one of those divine things that are possessed only as they overflow and flow away, and not easily come by because it must break into human life through the hard crust of sin and contingency. Joy came now here, now there, was held and escaped.

en la duda, madrugarle al otro. Mejor era un por si acaso que un quién lo hubiera pensado.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

We never intend to lose our jobs, break up with our live-in loves, or face any number of the curveballs life throws our way. But they happen all the same, so have a bailout plan just in case. Sounds corny, but I call this the 'freedom fund' because it gives you the freedom to get out of a jam without climbing into debt.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

You try to disaster-proof your life. But the thing that causes all the trouble is something you'd never even thought about.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

Un amor auténtico debería de asumir la contingencia del otro, es decir, sus carencias, sus límites y su gratuidad originaria; así no pretendería ser una salvación sino una relación entre seres humanos.

One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. -Sherlock Holmes

Hope for the best and Prepare for the Worst.

When I say only himself, I mean directly, and in the first instance: for whatever affects himself, may affect others through himself; and the objection which may be grounded on this contingency, will receive consideration in the sequel. This, then, is the appropriate region of human liberty.

The possibilities were too varied to allow reasonable planning.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

we can guard ourselves against the unexpected tragedies

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

I believe that the broad sweep of the way in which prayer works in the Bible — and I'm thinking here of Jonah and the repentance of Nineveh — teaches us that God, in his sovereignty, has established a kind of contingency in the universe, and that God genuinely interacts with humans who pray in such a way that the universe changes as a result of our prayers.

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.