Robert Hunter Quotes

Time is the least thing we have of.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

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.

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

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

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

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

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.