Quotes About Consequences

If looks could kill—there would have been wholesale murder that day.

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sometimes in life you have to do things your not proud of!

Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but they can surely mislead a right.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Oh, and what about the nurse? She was fired and charged as a criminal. That's Newton, too. If there are really bad effects, there must have been really bad causes. A dead patient means a really bad nurse. Much worse than if the patient had survived. So much worse, she's got to be a criminal. Must be. We can't escape Newton even in our thinking about one of the most difficult areas of safety: accountability for the consequences of failure.

The main question for a just culture is not about matching consequences with outcome. It is this: Did the assessments and actions of the professionals at the time make sense, given their knowledge, their goals, their attentional demands, their organizational context?

But errors are consequences: the leakage that occurs around the edges when you put pressure on a system without taking other factors into account.

In complex systems, after all, it is very hard to foresee or predict the consequences of presumed causes. So it is not the consequences that we should be afraid of (we might not even foresee them or believe them if we could). Rather, we should be weary of renaming things that negotiate their perceived risk down from what it was before.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

People six foot seven and 250 pounds should never lose their tempers," I explained with a calm voice. "It can be unhealthy for everyone involved.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Punishment creates crime.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction.' Even

If things go wrong, they simply don't repay their debt, the old directors walk away, and new ones come in promising to sweep up the mess

While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

You know how it is, boss; you're out on the town with a few friends, drinking it up; you're young, you've got incendiaries... shit happens.

Sometimes you do things to yourself so bad that the memories have barbs and never let you go.