Quotes About Reconsideration

I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.

When my family urged me to retire, it made me re-evaluate everything for the first time.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

There was a time when I said I wouldn't do something like that but I've seen so many of my friends go on the 'All Stars' seasons and they seem to be having a lot of fun for the most part.

Researchers have found that merely asking people to assume their initial judgment is wrong, to seriously consider why that might be, and then make another judgment, produces a second estimate which, when combined with the first, improves accuracy almost as much as getting a second estimate from another person.

When the facts change, I change my mind," the legendary British economist John Maynard Keynes declared.

In 2016 the public voted by a majority to leave the E.U. As I can see from my mailbag, some are angry at being deprived of their hopes and expectations. They demand action to implement their vote, just as others require we should think again and abandon the project entirely.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

She'd also begun to feel like this might not be the best place for her after all. "I

Now, with the message sent, the words said, she wanted to call them back, to censor, to rearrange them, to make a prettier sentence, a fairer explanation of her soul.

When Vul and Pashler let three weeks pass before asking their subjects the same question again, the benefit rose to one-third the value of a second opinion.

We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again.

when one finds oneself participating in an endeavor entirely without merit, one withdraws.

Don't you think you should retire again? The first retiral seems to have got mislaid.

I am trying to go back. I thought, believe it or not, that nothing could stop me from going back. I was wrong.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

Nothing. An idea that has just occurred to me. I must go home and think things out thoroughly. Do you know, I believe I have been extremely stupid—almost incredibly so." "I find that hard to believe," I said gallantly

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

It was that same old spiralling argument, and again he didn't have the energy to fight his corner. 'When you put it like that, I guess it doesn't sound too ridiculous.

Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?

I had better think things through carefully again after I have returned with your surrender in hand.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.