Quotes About Trade-off

To an economist, no action is really a mistake, it's just an optimal answer to a different question.

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.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

When faced with too many alternatives and too much information, they satisfice (March and Simon 1958).

Life is a zero sum game.

I've often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don't have many old things, and we don't really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.

You can't have it both ways, Jess. There's are sure thing and then there's happiness--- but you gotta take the risk.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

but there might be a question whether he was not paying too dearly for his whistle. And

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

Every growth on this planet is at the cost of loss to some one. No one can deny it or proove it wrong.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

Pay attention to what you're giving up in the next-best alternative, but don't waste energy feeling bad about having passed up an option further down the list that you wouldn't have gotten to anyway.

I will receive no damage to my body that will be long-lasting for a small, insignificant amount of cash.

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

It's easy to want the benefits of something; it's hard to want the cost.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.