John Perez Quotes

You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit. It is but common prudence to see the way out before we venture in.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

Those split-second decisions that you can't take back, that's what I need to continue to improve.

Time and again, players lose because they make rash decisions. Therefore, you always have to remind yourself - don't hurry. Embarking on a risky combination that cannot be calculated to the end is certainly not the right thing to do.

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

We don't want to make a mistake. Would you rather make the mistake and err on the side of caution or wait until something happens and then answer to the American people, why you didn't vet these people properly?

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.