Quotes About Trade-off

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

Decurion exposes and overturns the assumption that work is public and the personal is private, and so the personal should not be part of work. In the same way, Decurion rejects the idea of work-life balance as a simple goal or mantra. After all, if your life is everything outside the workplace, then that leaves a bleak notion of what work is—something that we're forced to trade off against joyful living.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.

One can't have something for nothing.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.

It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. I'll take the shoes, she said firmly.

Such questions are labeled 'ipsative,' which means that if in reality you have both, the question makes it impossible for you to show up with both.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

Life is made up of compromises.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

On the one hand, it was nice to have someone who was concerned about you. But on the other hand, you couldn't ever feel truly independent. Marriage was a trade-off. You gave up some things and you gained others.

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

No hocus-pocus here. Just lots of living; it lends you some wisdom. Which I'm guessing is a trade-off for lost youth.

A series is filled with compromises.

I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad?

You should never kid yourself about the reality that you must always give something up in order to gain something. If

it is easier to deal with the devil you know, the price of avoiding primal separation and death anxiety is a partial suicide resolution in which one gives up on life. Peace is purchased at the cost of avoiding spontaneous feelings and encouraging a process of emotional anaesthesia—a trade-off in which primal anxieties are ameliorated by sacrificing the zest for life.

A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.