“I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.” IfsThinkingKnowsChildrenPlayGamesCrazyHappeningsConsequenceOur ChildrenClimateAtmosphereGlobal WarmingPredictableGreenhousesGreenhouse Gases Author:William J. Clinton
“I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of everything, and I realized I hadn't asked myself one question: And then what? That was my most important lesson. I learned to think about the consequences before the action and that saves me, to this day, from a lot of trouble. If you play it down the line, you'll start making better choices.” IfsThinkingImportantPlayActionRememberChoicesLinesRoomsTroubleLessonsLosingSittingConsequenceI RealizedThis DaySave MeImportant LessonsLosing Control Author:Karrine Steffans
“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.” FirstsHumansPersonsPlayCharacterActionEvilForceSocialJusticePowerfulCompassionSituationNovelEffectsMoralityNormalOrdinaryConsequenceFairsCrossesTransformationSignificantBoundariesSettingSettingsGood And EvilAttributesLuciferFair Play Author:Philip Zimbardo
“To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the preparation for war. The number of shameful secrets keeps growing incessantly, boundlessly. How meaningless all censorship taboos become, and how meaningless the consequences for overstepping them, when your life is in danger.” PeopleWarCountryPlayLife IsNumbersSecretRolesGrowingDangerConsequenceAbusePreparationCriticizeMeaninglessCensorshipTabooShamefulIncessantlyOverstepping Author:Christa Wolf
“Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.” ThinkingPlayBigsHappensForceSubjectsHugeTerribleConsequenceFollyCustomsMomentumAccounting Author:Charlie Munger
“If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.” IfsMindPersonsPlayCertainGamesPlansGoes OnConsequenceDefenseDynamicsGame Plan Author:Robert Greene
“Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.” MatterPlayChanceLevelsPowerfulBrainRolesSeriousPersonalityConsequenceIncomeChemicalsSoup Author:Mohsin Hamid
“There is a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game. And even in terms of the ending itself, it continues to break down to some very large decisions. So it's not like a ****c game ending where everything is linear and you make a choice between a few things - it really does layer in many, many different choices, up to the final moments, where it's going to be different for everyone who plays it.” DoeDifferentEndsPlayMomentsChoicesGamesTermDecisionBreakHugeApproachConsequenceFinalsLayersBreaking DownLinearDifferent ChoicesStacking Author:Ray Muzyka
“I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear. Yet do you care what your children do when you send them out to play? Is it a matter of consequence to you whether they play tag, or hide and seek, or pretend? No, it is not, because you know they are perfectly safe. You have placed them in an environment which you consider friendly and very okay.” KnowsInspirationalChildrenMatterHardPlayCareReligiousEnvironmentSafeConsequenceOkayOur ChildrenYour ChildrenFriendlyTagHide And SeekDo You Care Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and I've worked in the theater out here quite a bit. Everything else - the films - followed as a consequence of that.” WritingPlayFilmBitsConsequenceTheater Author:Lucinda Coxon
“My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.” HumansPlayBeliefDecisionPoorRolesTakenConsequenceNegativeLet MeBiggerFragilePayoffTrue And FalseAsymmetry Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.” PersonsPlayWalksImaginePossibilityHappeningsConsequenceDetailsTheatreTensionDefiniteVague Author:Sergio Chejfec
“By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.” WritingPlayCharacterUseCan DoIssuesExpressionConsequenceDefinitionsDelightPsychologicalNarrativeCharacterizationChronology Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantDifferentPlayHappensMovingGivenProcessUnderstandingRolesEconomyStreetsWallConsequenceEconomicsFinancialMoving ForwardBroadsRegulationRealistTransactionsGlobal Economy Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.” IfsThinkingWantImportantPlayConsequence Author:Keith Johnstone
“Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.” ThinkingWayMeanPlayOpportunityRolesToo MuchFailingMissingSucceedConsequenceChosenLiftsAwePassiveAbout SuccessOutliersMissing Opportunity Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world” WorldPlayWholeLastsHateNationsStruggleConsequenceI HateCornersDeterminedBitterColonialismImperialismDetestCorners Of The World Author:Sukarno
“You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.” WorldWayTryingBelieveWellsDoePlayGodLawScienceOrderGamesBeliefExistenceAttitudeDoubtTheoryConsequenceFundamentalsNo DoubtCaptureQuantumColleaguesInitialsLaw And OrderDiceQuantum TheorySenility Author:Albert Einstein