Quotes About Trade-off

The most cognitively brilliant people usually have had to sacrifice their emotional selves.

Captured by the cooking, I had a fleeting thought that I'd spent too many years trading time for money.

but something was given in exchange for what was lost

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

Programs for sale: fast, reliable, cheap - choose two.

Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?

Economics versus beauty, a story older than Sheba.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

But why is it that when you win you must also lose?

For every gain there is a sacrifice, and the removal of the parasite sometimes entails removal of the host.

the trade-off between truth-default and the risk of deception is a great deal for us. What we get in exchange for being vulnerable to an occasional lie is efficient communication and social coordination. The benefits are huge and the costs are trivial in comparison. Sure, we get deceived once in a while. That is just the cost of doing business.

psychologists Barry Schwartz and Adam Grant argue, in a brilliant paper, that, in fact, nearly everything of consequence follows the inverted U: "Across many domains of psychology, one finds that X increases Y to a point, and then it decreases Y.…There is no such thing as an unmitigated good. All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits.

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.

You don't get anything without giving up something.

You burn the house to roast the pig.

Success always has a price, but the reality is that the price is negotiable. If you pick the right system, the price will be a lot nearer what you're willing to pay. I

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous