Quotes About Consequence

you're all gonna die because of me." Holden

Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind

I don't want awesome powers. They come with awesome responsibilities, and those suck.

I figured we'd just do what we always do: stick our noses in where they don't belong and see what happens.

Chief Sealth, appalled at how his emerald garden had been trashed so quickly, wrote a letter in 1854 to President Franklin Pierce. "The whites, too, shall pass, perhaps sooner than the other tribes," he wrote with the help of a translator. "Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in waste.

Stephenson's crime went unpunished.

Regret is past-tense decision making.

Dejar de hacer algo por el mero hecho de que puedes hacerte daño es una razón nefasta para no actuar.

No valores únicamente las posibles desventajas de actuar.

no actuar es el mayor riesgo de todos.

Valora el coste de no actuar,

El primer interrogante tiene un poderoso efecto bola de nieve, mientras que el segundo conduce a un resultado binario triunfo/fracaso sin premio de consolación

If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if we define risk as "the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome," inaction is the greatest risk of all.

Might did make right, not just in practice, but as a matter of principle; and, of course, this conclusion came very close to abolishing the very idea of principle.

Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.

For evil to succeed, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing.

Instead of authority and consequence (the management staples of the factory floor), the best knowledge-work managers are known for their powers of persuasion, negotiation, markers to call in, and their large reserves of accumulated trust.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.