Une occasion manquee se retrouve, tandis qu'on ne revient jamais d'une demarche precipitee.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A missed opportunity can be found again, but a rash action cannot be undone.
- In plain terms
- You can find missed chances, but you cannot take back hasty actions.
- What can you take from it?
- Hasty decisions are harder to fix than missed opportunities.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is it better to act and regret or wait and miss?
- How do you recover from a rash decision?
Another view
Some missed opportunities are truly irreversible.
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