![Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.](/assets/img/quote-photos/two-types-of-choices-seem-to-me-to-have-been-crucial-in-tipping-the-outcomes-of.jpg)
Related Quotes
All quotes about:
reflection culture causes
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change. John Podhoretz
reflection soul fans
Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements. Walter Kirn
two feet west
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east... Aldous Huxley
two challenges majority
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. E. O. Wilson
two use
Never use two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson
two voice perfection
Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections. Saadi
two stupidity retrospect
...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. Stephen King
two voice criticism
In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.
two forgotten dies
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.
two mirrors choices
One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself. Star Jones
two twenty-somethings done
The most I've ever done was twenty-something, but that's wasn't because I wanted to. I feel like to me it's usually somewhere between two and- no, it's very hard to say because it really depends up on the shot, you know? If it's a complicated master shot and you know that this is the only thing that you're doing for that scene, a complicated one-er, you're going to maybe end up doing a few more takes than you normally would. But I'm not a big believer in doing tons and tons and tons of takes. Stanley Tucci
long interpretation patronizing
But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing. Martin Schulz
long emotion wanted
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago. Martin Seligman
long things-will-get-better alive
As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better. Laini Taylor
long creative matter
The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
long people stuff
People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything. Lisa Marie Presley
long trying screw-ups
I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me. Lisa McMann
long dependable lasting
And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love. Lisa Kleypas
long black politics
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read Johnny Cash
long waiting united-states
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long. John Sununu