Quotes About Trade-off

I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?

Try always to do what you WISH, and you will often sacrifice what you CAN do.

There is a price for all things.

I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?

There's very little in life that doesn't require a compromise of one kind or another. No matter what you choose, it won't be perfect.

For all power there is a price.

Sometimes, to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. - Julia Romano

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance,

Somewhere something is good for somebody as well as bad for someone else.

NO is always a YES to something else.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

Okay. This has to be a credible threat. Ergo, we have to have seen (and heard about) the real damage Randall has done to Jamie thus far; we have to be in no doubt whatever that he'd do real damage to Claire. We can't just say, "Oh, he's such a nasty person, you wouldn't believe…" We have to believe, and therefore appreciate, just what Jamie is doing when he trades what's left of his life for Claire's.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau

The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.

Every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing.

Perché ogni scelta ha un rovescio cioè una rinuncia, e così non c'è differenza tra l'atto di scegliere e l'atto di rinunciare.

So part of the issue is—do you want to do something great—in any area? If you are content with mediocrity in your life, then you will try to protect yourself from any failure. Just recognize the trade-off.

And saying yes to this version of her life would mean saying no to another version of her life.

There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Por cada cosa que usted ha perdido, ha ganado algo más; y por cada cosa que gana, siempre se pierde algo».