Kathryn Schulz Don't regret regret

Don't cry over spilled milk.

Overly strict regulation could seriously impair global growth for decades.

Amman Wasted time is always to be regretted.

However, sometimes the very same memory leads to repentance and forgiveness, peace and agreement.

Unfortunately, what hasn t changed will give it much to rue.

And in fact, the more we have of either of these things the more agency and the more imagination with respect to a given regret, the more acute that regret will be.

Worse still, they express no remorse toward their victims.

My greatest regret in life will always be not to have applied for Brazilian citizenship at the time.

But it would be a pity if China s leaders did not endorse this acknowledgement of Japanese guilt as a manifestation of Japan s willingness to repent.

And the amazing thing about this really insidious technological innovation is that even just with this one thing, we can experience a huge range of regret.

He said, You know what, one of the items on the checklist is lack of remorse, but another item on the checklist is cunning, manipulative.

Historians of Europe will probably one day conclude that it is the Holocaust and Europe s relations with its Jews that paved the way for the opening of this process of repentance.

The remaining regrets pertain to these things finance, family issues unrelated to romance or parenting, health, friends, spirituality and community.

Yet under President Vladimir Putin, with the economy growing robustly, these feelings have hardened, not diminished.

Eventually, on the 50th anniversary of Japan s defeat in 1995, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama responded with personal language of both deep remorse and heartfelt apology.

Tudor seems to hope that by putting on a yarmulke and repenting his anti Semitism, he will deceive a few naive Western politicians.

To call for those people who applied violence and persecuted others to examine themselves and repent is not intended to mete out legal responsibility and moral judgment.

And head on my shoulder, hand on my thigh, sang sweetly along, of regrets and depletions she was too young for, as I was too young, later, to believe in her pain.

We're taught to try to live life without regret. But why? Using her own tattoo as an example, Kathryn Schulz makes a powerful and moving case for embracing our regrets.

But, with Romney unapologetic about his own use of Cayman banks, we are unlikely to see progress even in this area.

Regret is the emotion we experience when we think that our present situation could be better or happier if we had done something different in the past.

But first I want to say that the intensity and persistence with which we experience these emotional components of regret is obviously going to vary depending on the specific thing that we're feeling regretful about.

The third way that I think we can help make our peace with regret is through the passage of time, which, as we know, heals all wounds except for tattoos, which are permanent.

The question of remorse has not arisen, because Megrahi has never admitted guilt, and did not drop an appeal against his conviction until just before his release.

When Russia marks the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union this Christmas, it will have much to celebrate. Unfortunately, what hasn t changed will give it much to rue.

And yet, how many public figures of McNamara s importance have ever expressed any regret for their mistakes and follies and crimes? I can name only one Robert McNamara.

During a boom, people considering getting into asset markets weigh the fear of regret if they don t against the pain of possible loss if they do.

Before asking for a new Windows PC this holiday season, remember the old adage Be careful about what you wish for.

Before asking for a new Windows PC this holiday season, remember the old adage Be careful about what you wish for.

Such measures are no regret' in that they can often reduce production cost and waste with economic as well as environmental benefits in addition to reducing GHG emission.

Others very high on our list of regrets include career, romance, parenting, various decisions and choices about our sense of self and how we spend our leisure time or actually more specifically, how we fail to spend our leisure time.

Indeed, a direct result of national repentance for the gulag era should have been the banning of the communist party and the disqualification from political office of those who worked in the KGB.

If Kenya approaches oil exploration and extraction in Turkana the way my Facebook friends have, and fails to implement these common sense recommendations, a few years from now Kenyans might be sorry that oil was ever found.

Instead, Abe should take a leaf from his speech to the US Congress in April. There, he described a deep repentance in his heart when he visited a memorial to American soldiers who died in World War II, to whom he offered his eternal condolences.

In short, the paradox of choice (as elegantly described in an eponymous book by Barry Schwartz) is that too many choices confuse us and raise the possibility of regret how can we be sure that we are getting just what we want, and that something else would not be better?

Its style is almost scientific factual, staccato like, and unemotional and it goes a long way toward meeting China s demand for a convincing investigation and act of contrition that might allow the bitter and still poisonous past to be overcome.

You will remember what I say in time to come I submit my case to the judgement of God . Surely God keeps an eye on His creatures .

And soon the time will come when you will remember what I now say to you and I entrust my tasks to Allah indeed Allah sees the bondmen .

You will remember what I say to you . I commit my affair to God surely God sees His servants . '

And anon ye shall remember that which am telling you . Confide my affair Unto God verily God is the Beholder of His bondmen .

And you will remember what I am telling you , and my affair I leave it to Allah . Verily , Allah is the All Seer of ( His ) slaves .

You will remember what I am telling you , so I commit my case to God . God is Observant of the servants .

I entrust my affairs to Allah . Surely Allah is watchful over His servants .

And ye will remember what I say unto you . I confide my cause unto Allah .