“In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.” RunningFacesChoicesEasyDifficultDecisionCompanyConsequenceLonelyExcuseCeoFoldsWrong ChoicesPlentiful Author:Ben Horowitz
“Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human mate. The consequences of a bad decision can be difficult for everyone involved.” HumansLongLightSeemsDifficultTermDecisionDogInvolvedCommitmentConsequenceSurfaceLong TermMatesBad Decision Author:Elizabeth Holmes
“The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.” PeopleHelpingPoliticalIndividualBeliefDifficultReligiousBrainConsequenceProfoundPsychologicalAbandonStubbornIntegrating Author:Andrew B. Newberg
“The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't belong there. It's difficult to think of anything more private and of less public concern than what we choose to put into our bodies. It only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of those choices.” ThinkingWayMatterBodyChoicesForceDifficultPayConsequenceConcernCrisisBest WayRealmsRemoveObesityPublic HealthAlleviate Author:Radley Balko
“If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will be far reaching and very difficult to reverse, and we seem to have realized that in the wake of the September 11th attacks. To the extent there is any reason to be hopeful, perhaps that's where we'll end up here.” IfsTryingEndsReasonUseSeemsSufferingDifficultConsequenceReachingHopefulReverseSeptemberDiscouragingSeptember 11September 11thEncryption Author:Matt Blaze
“I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able to learn something true about being human that we didn't know before. And yet the consequences of this traditional view are really quite radical.” ThinkingKnowsHumansRealAbleDifficultSinViewsGraceConsequenceOriginalsTraditionalRadicalBeing HumanOriginal Sin Author:James Alison
“I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're legally entitled to. But I follow the letter of the law, because the consequences are severe if you're caught. I was a perpetrator at one time and suffered severe consequences. It is difficult in some places, but if you live in places like California, move somewhere else to save some money.” IfsMovingLawDifficultBreakImagineTaxesConsequenceAdvantageLettersCaughtHonestlyCaliforniaStrongestOne TimeEntitledSevereSomewhere ElsePerpetratorsTax Breaks Author:Michael Franzese
“The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantLongDifferentSelfHardMotivationChoicesEasyDifficultTermBornChanceMagicHard WorkDisciplineConsequenceLong TermSelf DisciplinePillsShort TermUnicornEasy WayDifficult Life Author:Rory Vaden
“During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence.” WellsWarGovernmentDifficultGroupsConflictConsequenceCivil WarNomadProxyDuring The Civil War Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.” EvilNationsDifficultBenefitsConsequenceResourcesRegardTrainEndureObstaclesForestsDestroyedIndispensableFoePositivelyPioneersDisappearanceSettlersForeseenIrreparable Author:Richard E. Blackwelder
“Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.” PeopleKnowsDifficultLaughingSeriousConsequenceComedianAnxiousMaking People Laugh Author:Robyn Hitchcock
“The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation, trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.” ShouldHas BeensStatesDifficultUnitedAttitudeUnited StatesCenturyRevolutionConsequenceBuiltOvercomingGravesConsiderationNationalismCooperationAbandoned20th CenturyMexicanProtectionismMexican Revolution Author:Alan Bersin
“Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.” FeelsStatesDifficultAchieveEmotionalConsequenceMereUnhappyLive LifeStableHeelsHead Over HeelsEmotional Things Author:Nick Hornby
“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.” LifeActionDifficultConsequenceComplicatedDiverseOur ActionsPottersPredictingPredicting The FutureHarry Potter MovieMagic Harry PotterConsequences Of Our ActionsDumbledore InspirationalDumbledore Book Author:J. K. Rowling
“Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.” WayChildrenSaidMightActionWishEasyDifficultMistakeEventsConsequenceConcernedContraryHardestMy ChildrenBehaveRight WayOur ActionsDarlingCoping Author:Elizabeth George
“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.” PeopleHumansSeemsDifficultChallengesEffortVirtueDoubtImpossibleRiskGroupsBehaviorExpectationsUnderstoodConsequenceTasksPerformancesImportanceConstantAccomplishDefinedAccomplishmentNo DoubtUnderestimateHuman BehaviorEarnestMundaneDiligencePrerequisitesDifficult ChallengesGreat Accomplishment Author:Atul Gawande
“Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.” IfsInspirationalHas BeensDifficultSidesFriendshipBusinessRiskCreatingConsequenceConnectionsRewardsFlipFiringMany Friends Author:Mark Cuban