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Unintended Consequences Quotes
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Reflection
Achieve
Blindly
Consequences
Our
Way
More
Failing
Without
Go
Anything
Creating
Useful
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.
David Maraniss
Life
World
Accidents
Ambition
Believe
Consequences
Our
Chaotic
Our World
Misconceptions
Mystery
Lazy
Also
Revealing
Jumble
Wonder
Endless
Intentions
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Bold
Connections
Illuminate
As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
Brad Feld
Me
Soul
Experience
Consequences
Teenager
About
My Soul
Had
Idea
Over
Deal
How
Years
Taught
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Dad
We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
Dan Webster
People
Congress
Consequences
Talented
Talented People
Lot
Just
Them
Unintended
Avoid
Unintended Consequences
Included
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.
Dennis C. Blair
Military
Difficult
Consequences
Out
Rarely
Volatile
Countries
Major
Force
Effective
Quick
Controlled
Short
Short-Lived
Regions
Turns
Use
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Military Force
Lived
Large-Scale
Right
Because my business partner, Mitt Romney, was running for president when 'Unintended Consequences' was published, the media held up my book as a defense of the 1 percent.
Edward Conard
Business
Book
Partner
Consequences
Defense
President
Running
Percent
Because
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Up
Romney
Held
Business Partner
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Media
Published
New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.
John Key
Environmental
Needs
You
Balance
World
Opportunities
Consequences
Responsibilities
Risk
Economic
Economic Opportunities
Lead
New
Because
End
Up
Getting
Want
New Zealand
Might
Then
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Zealand
Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.
Marc Faber
Money
Inflation
Consequences
About
Rates
Higher
Had
Printed
Exercise
Been
Than
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Each
Brings
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.
Richard Grasso
Battle
Consequences
Taken
Clearly
Always
Heat
Any
Legislative
Act
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Regulatory
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Richard Schickel
Law
Perspective
Consequences
Through
Pushes
Years
Pause
Us
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation.
Ron Johnson
Experience
Somebody
Consequences
Jobs
Someone
Understands
Intended
Legislation
Different
Perspectives
Created
Different Perspectives
Incentives
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Products
Who
Washington
Actually
Here
Need
The concept of fair value accounting is correct and useful, but the application during periods of crisis is problematic. It's another one of those unintended consequences of making a rule that's supposed to be good that turns out the other way.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Good
Value
Consequences
Other
Rule
Way
Correct
Those
Crisis
Out
Fair
Supposed
Concept
Periods
Another
Making
Accounting
Problematic
Turns
Useful
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Application
One of the strangest unintended consequences of abortion, of legalized abortion, was that it drives the crime rate down because what abortion really was, was a mechanism for which fewer unwanted children could be born.
Stephen J. Dubner
Abortion
Crime
Unwanted
Down
Consequences
Crime Rate
Born
Rate
Could
Drives
Because
Fewer
Children
Which
Really
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Strangest
Mechanism
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.
Tim Walberg
Good
Needs
Law
Consequences
Good Intentions
Innovations
Shaped
Lead
Known
Ford
Intended
Often
Intentions
Workforce
Bill
Bill Gates
Hard
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Workplace
Henry
Henry Ford
Serve
Gates
Imagine
I understand why there is a push for an automated strike zone. However, I do think there would be some unintended consequences of having it that I think need to be addressed first before we would go down that road.
Max Scherzer
First
Before
Down
Think
Consequences
Strike
I Think
Would
Would-Be
Some
Having
Push
Road
Understand
Go
However
Automated
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Why
Zone
Need
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