Quotes About Alternatives

If a client insists on getting a recommendation from you, always give him at least two alternatives so that he still has to make choice.

Pero que en las decisiones más trascendentes de la vida suele pasar que las distintas opciones son atractivas, y tienen puntos a favor. Y eso nos lleva al pantanoso territorio de las dudas. Las peores disyuntivas son las que nos presentan alternativas que deseamos, pero que se excluyen recíprocamente.

Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.

It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

We know what we have ahead of us—work. We've been trained for it. We've some experience in it. We know what the rewards are and the alternatives are clear enough.

No doubt Western modernity has its limitations and discontents. Still, it is far better than the known alternatives—not only, or even primarily, because of its advanced technology but because of its fundamental commitment to freedom, reason, and human dignity.

No liquid investment alternatives with stable guaranteed principal values exist that can provide real returns by consistently beating the combined impact of inflation and income taxes.

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Having recognized that a choice needs to be made, you can now turn to the full range of possibilities you should consider. These might be versions of the options already identified.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.

because they sincerely believe that their current policy has no alternatives, and that any other policy choice will bring ruin to them and their families.

Commenting source code gives you the perfect opportunity to document those elusive bits of a project that can't be documented anywhere else: engineering trade-offs, why decisions were made, what other alternatives were discarded, and so on.

The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.

Since the last question, also the first one, the quesiton of death, offers us the interesting alternatives of disintegrating ourselves by our own wills in proof of our freedom, or the acknowledging that we owe a human life to this waking spell of existence, regardless of the void.

Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.

At our absolute limit, we were almost indifferent as to whether we did the deal or not. Meanwhile the seller had now alienated us, and we preferred not to have any further dealings with him. Consequently his deal was less attractive, and our top price now dropped below $405,000. Meanwhile we considered alternatives. We soon bought a better lot, built a new house, and spent twenty-two happy years there. The haggler's lot remained unsold for another decade.

Someone has defined insanity as an inability to choose among false alternatives. In dreams we are insane. We wander across our limitless dreamscapes as madmen.

fear clouds judgment and encourages you to REACT - rather than carefully consider alternatives - thus ensuring a less than optimal response to your problem. Even

Not only have you been trained so thoroughly in how to think, but you have also been given the alternatives by which you could object to thinking a certain way.

There are no have-to's, just choices