Quotes About Contingency

You can't control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

A good general, Allister was fond of saying, plans in two ways: for an absolute victory and for an absolute defeat. The one enables him to squeeze the last ounce of success out of a triumph; the other keeps a failure from turning into a catastrophe.

I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency.

She de-realizes her behavior by this sense of tentativeness, reversibility, contingency, arbitrariness of everything she does—and since situations only become real to her after a long time (perhaps never fully so) she has the space—of incomplete commitment, so to speak—to behave destructively, unreliably, erratically, self-indulgently, irresponsibly.

En vez de querer ser algo a toda costa —pertenecer a una patria, a una tradición, reconocerse en una clase, en un nombre, en una posición social, tal vez hoy en día no pueda haber mas orgullo legítimo que el de reconocerse como nada, como menos que nada, fruto misteriosos de contingencia, producto de combinaciones inextricables que igualan a todo lo viviente en la misma presencia fugitiva y azarosa.

la frase de Julio César en los Comentarios sobre la guerra de las Galias: «Cuando lleguemos a ese río ya hablaremos de ese puente». De manera que ya me preocuparía más adelante de mí mismo y de mi futuro.

You never know what may happen with injuries and suspensions.

what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

The best leaders in any enterprise see problems coming and stack the deck to prevent negative "what ifs" from happening. They also have contingency plans to take advantage of positive openings which occur in fleeting windows of time.

It's a key responsibility of the leader, in any field of endeavor (athletic team, military, or business) to assure the successful continuity or ability of his organization to carry on should he die or become incapacitated. It's his duty to plan for such a contingency out of loyalty to his people and, if in a business endeavor, loyalty to his customers and, clients.

Probably. Again with the probablys. A world full of probablys, she said.

We try to reduce the danger to a minimum, of course. And then we prepare for accidents with alternate plans. For instance, if I'm turning over a stagecoach, I try to take into consideration what moves I have to make if it flips in the wrong direction. Without those emergency plans you get hurt.

contingencies

When it came to the location of clandestine meetings, all operatives held to the acronym PACE. It stood for: primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency.

Expect the best, but prepare for the worst.' I'm good at the first part, crap at the second.

master of alternatives, the eternal custodian of Plan B;

All human actions which are worked out to the end, passing through the un-forseeable contingencies of a "world we never made" follow a similar course: the conscious purpose with which they start is redefined after each unforeseen contingency is suffered; and at the end, in the light of hindsight, we see the truth of what we have been doing.

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

a prudent archer has always a second bowstring

History is about great forces, yes, but also about contingency.

Wish for the best, prepare for the worst

And there's no such thing as too much back-up.