Consequences Quote by Blaise Pascal

“our fear of consequences is always worse than the consequences themselves—can”

— Shawn Achor

“The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.…

— George Eliot

“as per the law of unintended consequences, no matter what people’s intention when they do something, they rarely know what the ultimate outcome of…

— James Wallman

“Risk is the increased consequence of failure.”

— Michael Bane

“you need to weigh first-order consequences against second- and third-order consequences, and base your decisions not just on near-term results but on results over…

— Ray Dalio

“without emboldening people to envisage the unlikely, we increase risk rather than diminish it.”

— Shimon Peres

“Bad outcomes don’t just happen; they occur because specific people make, or fail to make, specific decisions”

— Ray Dalio

“Every action has possible bad consequences and crucially every inaction has possible bad consequences.”

— Ben Hunt-Davis

High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk:…

— Anthony Giddens

“Sometimes, the choices we make have devastating consequences”

— Jeanette Vaughan

“However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough