I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Even a president makes mistakes.
But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.
Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.
Every career thing I do can't be perfect and sometimes my decisions are wrong.
Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.
If you intend to do the right thing for yourself, your family, and for your business, it becomes more like a balancing act. It's juggling - and accepting the fact that it won't always be perfect will help you better manage the inevitable ebbs and flows.
Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we all do.
Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.
She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.
I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me being a bad person sometimes and doing things I regret. Such as having a child with someone you've split up with, then falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone else. That's quite difficult.
