Quotes About Dilemma

I considered. As Tatsu noted, if word got out, the efficacy of the camera network would be compromised. But there was more.

People talk about morality. Sometimes I think there's just what you can do, and what you can't. Well, I could. And I was going to.

But she was also uneasy. She remembered when she'd been in college and had come across the Nietzsche quote: Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.

Apparently we always think we want choice, but when we actually get it, we may not like it. Meanwhile, the need to chose in ever more aspects of life causes us more distress than we realize.

So the researchers concluded that being forced to confront trade-offs in making decisions makes people unhappy and indecisive.

Adding the second option creates a conflict, forcing a trade-off between price and quality.

Bottom line—the options we consider usually suffer from comparison with other options.

WE'VE SEEN THAT AS THE NUMBER OF OPTIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION goes up and the attractive features associated with the rejected alternatives accumulate, the satisfaction derived from the chosen alternative will go down.

The trouble was that with all these options available to me now, I was no longer sure that "regular" jeans were what I wanted. Perhaps the easy fit or the relaxed fit would be more comfortable.

CHOOSING WELL IS DIFFICULT, AND MOST DECISIONS HAVE SEVERAL different dimensions.

if the ends are sufficiently important to require lies instead of the truth.

Oh! Moeten wij eeuwig lijden of altijd vluchten voor wat mooi is?

In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't.

So you have to weigh that consequence against the other consequence and make a choice. I know if it were me, I'd choose to go on the tennis trip. But never say you have to do anything.

I knew I must not join him, but how could I tell that to the one who taught me how to live?

9mm was ready. But

Principles had a nasty way of interfering with results.

A problem that occurred too quickly for me to solve, so I brought it along.

Design Is a Wicked Problem Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber defined a wicked problem as one that could be clearly defined only by solving it, or by solving part of it (1973). This paradox implies, essentially, that you have to solve the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.

But when it comes to solving problems, one of the best ways to start is by putting away your moral compass.

If you find yourself mapping a "whether or not" question, you're almost always better off turning it into a "which one" question that gives you more available paths.

The United States is in a tough spot.

Does it never strike you as puzzling that it is wicked to kill one person, but glorious to kill ten thousand?

The psychologist Walter Mischel captured the conflict in an agonizing choice he gave four-year-olds in a famous 1972 experiment: one marshmallow now or two marshmallows in fifteen minutes.15 Life is a never-ending gantlet of marshmallow tests, dilemmas that force us to choose between a sooner small reward and a later large reward.