Quotes About Consequences

When physicians are under time pressure, they are apparently more inclined to choose a quick-fix solution, despite its serious downsides.

Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster. Please take 5 to 10 minutes to write a brief history of that disaster.

The unsurprising idea that luck often contributes to success has surprising consequences when we apply it to the first two days of a high-level golf tournament. To keep things simple, assume that on both days the average score of the competitors was at par 72. We focus on a player who did very well on the first day, closing with a score of 66. What can we

The combination of probability neglect with the social mechanisms of availability cascades inevitably leads to gross exaggeration of minor threats, sometimes with important consequences.

Damasio and his colleagues have observed that people who do not display the appropriate emotions before they decide, sometimes because of brain damage, also have an impaired ability to make good decisions. An inability to be guided by a "healthy fear" of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw.

In terms of its consequences for decisions, the optimistic bias may well be the most significant of the cognitive biases. Because optimistic bias can be both a blessing and a risk, you should be both happy and wary if you are temperamentally optimistic.

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

To be a good diagnostician, a physician needs to acquire a large set of labels for diseases, each of which binds an idea of the illness and its symptoms, possible antecedents and causes, possible developments and consequences, and possible interventions to cure or mitigate the illness.

The widespread misunderstanding of randomness sometimes has significant consequences.

Some stereotypes are perniciously wrong, and hostile stereotyping can have dreadful consequences, but the psychological facts cannot be avoided: stereotypes, both correct and false, are how we think of categories.

A few lucky gambles can crown a reckless leader with a halo of prescience and boldness.

Consistent overweighting of improbable outcomes—a feature of intuitive decision making—eventually leads to inferior outcomes.

If a person did not have free will, how could he be held accountable for the bad things he did?

It reminded Sade of some of the aristocrats, who had treated imprisonment as a bad joke, a mild annoyance that would be made right before any real damage was done. They had kept their dignity right up to the moment when the drum roll stopped and the blade fell. Then, too late, they screamed like children. As I would have done . The thought popped unwelcome into his head.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Il trattato di Versailles ha prodotto dei tedeschi vessati che hanno prodotto degli ebrei erranti che fabbricano dei palestinesi erranti che fabbricano delle vedove erranti incinte dei vendicatori di domani...

Che ne dici, tu che sei il prodotto di un lungo interrogativo procreatorio: "E' giusto fare dei figli in un mondo come questo? Il Divino Paranoico merita che si accresca la sua opera? Ho io il diritto di mettere in moto un destino? Non so forse che avviare una vita significa metterle la morte alle calcagna? Cosa valgo io come padre e cosa varrà Julie come madre? Possiamo correre il rischio di assomigliarci?

the past century has shown that dumb minds can do extraordinary damage.

Una tecnología implica una ideología, ya que afecta a la forma en que pensamos y actuamos y nos obliga a escoger varias formas de proceder. Nuevos artefactos generan su propia dinámica con consecuencias difíciles de predecir. Los inventores del automóvil no se imaginaban las consecuencias, y tampoco el inventor del World Wide Web podía imaginar la transformación social y cultural que está causando.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC

The first attempted coup in the history of the United States of America had failed.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. SALADIN

Behind every fortune lies a great crime," said Ramirez. "Honoré de Balzac

What's your point?" "My point is that revenge is good. Revenge is healthy. Revenge is purifying." "Revenge only leads to more killing and more revenge. For every terrorist we kill, there's another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They're like sharks' teeth: break one and another will rise in its place.