John Morrison Quotes

President Bush should learn to focus on the shades of grey

So many plusses, so many minuses.

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent.

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.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

I'm sick of having an opinion on everything. Getting older, you learn all sorts of things you're supposed to, but I feel like it's time, when you get older, through experience, to... I started to feel quite... what's the word? ... intimidated by seeing both sides of everything.

I think everything has its own pros and cons.

When one deals with urban issues, one never deals with clear black-and-white issues; they're all trade-offs. Important urban issues present conflicting values.

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. You don't even agree with me 100 percent.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

I think of choosing as a... both a fun and an effortful activity and I think of choice as something that in order for you to really get what you want out of it you have to put a lot into it and so I'm only willing to do that for a few different things and for the rest I really just try to either satisfy, come up with a simple rule or let somebody else make the choice.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.