“Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.” MomentsHandsCostPercentRoundsEmsGamblingDefiningBettingDefining Moments Book:Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner Source: Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner
“War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.” LittlesWarMomentsGrowsTerribleCostPlantJungleCropsClearing Book:Kaunda on Violence Source: Kaunda on Violence
“Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally, that isn't a low-cost course of action for most boys. You avoid a physical beating, but you pay a real social and psychological cost for it. Those moments of walking away from fights, even though I knew it was the rational and civilized thing to do, cost me tremendously.” WayRealMomentsActionFightingCoursesFoundSocialPayBoysWalkingCostLowsRationalPsychologicalRanThings To DoCivilizedWalking Away Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.” MomentsCharacterPoliticalPoliticsPartyStruggleTerribleCostSucceedMajorityVariousDeceitExpensesPolitical PartiesCunningSupremacyShadyTrickery Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.” PeopleIfsTryingEndsMomentsCharacterShowsHurtViolenceInvolvedCostGloryImpactMeant To BeEntertainingProtagonistsCathartic Author:Charlie Huston
“What I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We've put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people.” PeopleI CanMomentsGamesEffortCostCreatingPaidInvolvement Author:Masahiro Sakurai