Quotes About Consequence

I often ask myself whether my decision to pursue a life of scholarship -- if decision is the right word -- was a result of an essential poverty of the soul, or if the desiccation which I sometimes suspect is the one truly distinguishing mark of my scholarship was an inevitable consequence of that decision.

2. Lake Erie The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue.

Whitney had carefully kept the cotton gin under wraps while he applied for a patent, but he made a tactical error when he allowed women to have a look at it

Decisions without actions are pointless. Actions without decisions are reckless.

I think this was a bad idea,' he repeated. 'I think the best thing to do would be to forget all about this and just go back home. We can chalk it up to experience

But then I didn't know what I was giving up until it was already gone. No one ever does, do they?

This deficiency would be scorched into our future like an ill-considered tattoo.

For a moment he considered running across the platform to tell people about the empty seats in the carriage, but he decided not to as something told him that if it didn't make Mother angry, it would probably make Gretel furious, and that would be worse still.

Tôi có quy?n tin b?t c? Ä'i?u gì tôi th?y tin. Tôi ch? c?n ch?p nh?n h?u qu? cho ni?m tin c?a mình.

Illusions are a necessary consequence of intelligence. Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. Would we be better off without visual illusions? We would in fact be worse off—like a person who never says anything to avoid making any mistakes. A system that makes no errors is not intelligent.

Take stock, citizen bacillus, Now that there are so many billions of you, Bleeding through your opened veins, Into your bathtub, or into the Pacific Of that by which they may remember you.

You can't blame the people who can't hear the warnings; you have to blame the ones who can, and who ignore them.

Wherefore, it seems, O Mansoul, to be thy wisdom to take good heed what thou dost in this matter; for if you once yield, you give up yourselves to another, and so you are no more your own. Wherefore, to give up yourselves to an unlimited power, is the greatest folly in the world; for now you indeed may repent, but can never justly complain.

For first must give place to last, because last must have its time to come; but last gives place to nothing; for there is not another to succeed.

How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours." —Wayne W. Dyer

If you don't like the crop you are reaping, check the seed you are sowing.

THE DIFFERENCE THAT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE

If the price is an issue, then realize that there is also a price to be paid for lack of commitment. If you fail to develop proper commitment, what will you forfeit? On the other hand, if you pay the price, what benefit will you gain?

you get the kind of behavior you reward. You don't get what you hope for, ask for, wish for, or beg for. You get what you reward.

final analysis, results are what matter; attendance and activity don't.

Tomorrow's opportunity is determined by yesterday's responsibility.

If the reaction is worse than the action, the problem usually increases. If the reaction is less than the action, the problem usually decreases.

Vows are powerful things, he said. They set things in motion.

Sometimes you have to hurt someone, to be able to help. - Spencer Hastings