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Wednesday, March 1. 2017

Second saddest QQQ


"I guess I didn't think it through."


Lots of people have said this 

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 15:48 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
#1 Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick on 2017-03-01 16:20 (Reply)
Or the universally applicable, tragicomic line "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

Covers every single incident of mine up until age 30 or so.
#2 gpc31 on 2017-03-01 22:05 (Reply)
"hold my beer, watch this."

I have to say that i don't have a problem with jumping in on a task or project without a clear or perfect plan. First of all life is full of these things and you cannot take 4 months to plan for each task you are confronted with. Secondly it build confidence and skill to take on these things with just your raw knowledge and abilities. Life is full of split second decisions and ad hoc fixes to problems. What is worse than trying and failing is analysis paralysis where you never even start to fix the problem. Having said this I hasten to add that there are some things that shouldn't be attempted without careful planning and practice. It is important to be able to recognize those situations where you need to rethink your plan.
#3 IdahoBob on 2017-03-02 10:19 (Reply)
not sure you understand the usual context of that quote.

"hold my beer, watch this ... as I snowboard off the roof into an empty pool".
#3.1 Vic Morrow's tommy gun on 2017-03-02 10:33 (Reply)
In my boyhood career as air transport pilot, one of our axioms was "make haste slowly". It meant, think through all the alternatives you have time for, but don't ponder your way into a disaster. That little gem helped me often in my post-career (refuse to say retirement) undertakings.
#3.2 BillH on 2017-03-02 11:49 (Reply)
Grim's Hall: Didn't Think That Through.
QUOTE:
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is one of those people whose chief claim to fame is being a "first," in his case being London's first Muslim mayor....In any case, he decided to give a speech on the evils of nationalism....
There are two problems with this. The first is that he decided to give this speech in Scotland, a nation whose elective offices have been recently dominated by an organization called The Scottish National Party.

Oops.

The second problem is that Khan himself is a living symbol of an even more divisive, even more narrow mode of 'pitting different parts of our country or sections of our society against one another.' If this is the right standard for judgment, identity politics fares even worse than nationalism, which at least is willing to take any kind of Scot as long as they're Scottish. Drawing the division at the level of the nation at least avoids drawing divisions below that level...
I very much doubt the Mayor of London realizes he "didn't think that through." Dick Whittington's cat for Mayor of London!
#4 Gringo on 2017-03-02 10:49 (Reply)
He meant that other nationalism not his nationalism.
#4.1 OneGuy on 2017-03-02 16:34 (Reply)

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