Quotes About Contingency

One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.

Siempre hay que buscar una posible alternativa y estar preparado para ella.

We had no backup plan should disaster have occurred.

Grounded in awareness of transiency, ambiguity, and contingency, such a person values lightness of touch, flexibility and adaptability, a sense of humor and adventure, appreciation of other viewpoints, a celebration of difference.

When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad others, when I understand it to be as contingent and transient as anything else, then the barrier that separates "me" from "not me" begins to crumble. The conviction of being a closed cell of self is not only delusive but anesthetic. It numbs me to the suffering of the world.

Places to which I am instinctively attracted are places where I imagine suffering to be absent. "There," I think, "if only I could get there, then I would suffer no more." The groundless ground of contingency, however, holds out no such hope. For this is the ground where you are born and die, get sick and grow old, are disappointed and frustrated. To

To embrace the contingency of one's life is to embrace one's fate as an ephemeral but sentient being. As Nietzsche claimed, one can come to love that fate. But to do so one must first embrace it, though one instinctively recoils at such a prospect.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.

E' bello decidere, ritiene, ma puoi anche decidere di lasciarti influenzare, di accettare un consiglio o in suggerimento perché così ti gira, di non cristallizzare il flusso della vita fissandoti su qualcosa di assolutamente contingente come la tua volontà

up was the necessary supply chain in case he had to leave Bohemia

But there are no grown-ups, that's what you must grow up to know fully; your parents were just two more bodies experiencing landscape and weather, trying to make sense by vibrating columns of air, redescribing contingency as necessity with religion or World Ice Theory or the Jewish science, cutting profound truths with their opposites as the regimes of meaning collapse into the spread.

Always have a backup plan to the backup plan.

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.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

I plan for the best and expect the worst.

As an entrepreneur and public company CEO, I've dealt with dozens of rollouts, and when unveiling a new product, the operating approach should be, 'Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.'

There's no point in talking about ifs.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

Across the U.S. government, the possibility that some sort of populist uprising might bring down one of our allies had historically been met with resignation: Sure, it was likely to happen, the same way a bad hurricane will hit the Gulf Coast or the Big One will hit California; but since we couldn't say exactly when or where, and since we didn't have the means to stop it anyway, the best thing to do was prepare contingency plans and get ready to manage the aftershocks.

Libre no es para Hegel quien hace lo que quiere, sino quien hace lo que debe hacer para realizar su esencia. La libertad de la historia no es, por tanto, la mera contingencia, el azar, o el acaso; la libertad de la historia es cumplimiento inexorable del fin, sumisión a sí mismo.

The skill set of a CEO (ability to see the big picture, to deal with a wide range of problems, to plan for contingencies, etc.)

What's the worst that can happen during planning? Maybe your whiteboard is accidentally erased. What's the worst that can happen during delivery? Your drill breaks through the ocean floor, flooding the tunnel.

An economic depression or a pandemic could occur. You never know. . . .