Escalation Of Commitment Quotes & Sayings

I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active. — Arjun Rampal

I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window! — Laura Leighton

The term "escalation of commitment" was first coined by Barry Staw, a business professor at the University of California, Berkeley.4 It's defined as a decision-making pattern in which a person - for our purposes, a business leader - continues to support or believe in a strategy even after it has continually failed. Escalation of commitment is often described as the inability to let go, or as an obsessive need to try to succeed even when failure is inevitable. — Laurence G. Weinzimmer

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. — Jamie Zawinski

One cannot seperate truth from actions ... Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate. — Brandon Sanderson

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. — Shia Labeouf

That imagined 'otherwise' which is our practical heaven. — George Eliot

For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see. — Frederick Lenz

My family consists of everyone I love dearly and not just the people who are related to me. — Steven Aitchison

Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known, then the computer can do the repetitive task of executing within the genre. — Philip M. Parker