Weighing Quotes

• In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Business, Intelligent

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Relevant, Evidence

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• If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

  Tony Blair

  Decision, Trying, Pros And Cons

  Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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• I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.

  Richard Kiel

  Two, Feet, Guy

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• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  Abigail Breslin

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  William Ralph Inge

  Government, Democracy, Vote

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• Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

  Mark Udall

  Writing, Doctors, Drug

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• We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Life, Goal, Mind

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Winning, Jewels, Anchors

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• You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

  Sally Field

  Trying

  "Sally Field Talks Unrequited Love, Wild Wardrobe in "Doris". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. March 8, 2016.

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• You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

  Plato

  Men, Thinking, Life And Death

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.

  James Van Praagh

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Regret

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Aug 03, 2014

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• Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Positive, Caring, Impact

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

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• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

  Learned Hand

  Freedom, Lying, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Change, Peace, Responsibility

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• I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Cities, Years

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

  Robert Burns

  Rocks, Balance, Weight

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• First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly, we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but on how they were made.

  Robert Rubin

  Judging, Decision, Needs

  Robert E. Rubin's Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.treasury.gov. May 17, 1999.

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• It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.

  David Bowick

  Kids, Two, Feet

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• If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

  George Foreman

  Negative, Want, Obsessed

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• Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

  "How Elon Musk Hires: 'It Matters Whether Someone Has A Good Heart'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. March 9, 2013.

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• but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

  Jose Saramago

  Moving, Thinking, Firsts

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• I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

  Anne Lamott

  Morning, Wish, Age

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• I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Done, Wanted, Consequence

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.534, St. Martin's Press

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