Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typically analytic way, Bezos cast his decision in what he calls the "regret-minimization framework." He imagined that he was 80 years old and looking back at his life. And suddenly everything became clear to him. When he was 80, he'd never regret having missed out on a six-figure Christmas bonus; he wouldn't even regret having tried to build an online business and failed. "In fact, I'd have been proud of that, proud of myself for having taken that risk and tried to participate in that thing called the Internet that I thought was going...
...class academically. Every minute of my day I was doing something: a practice, a meeting, studying for a test. Being so busy I didn't really have time to know and care for other people. I was very into myself. That's one thing I think I regret....I've learned to think about others instead of myself. In the long run you can get good grades and be successful financially, but the key factor in being successful in life is whether or not you've made any good relationships with other people. Ask yourself: Have I helped people along...
...been a good tutor and we will miss him," Lewis wrote Monday. "I certainly understand that he leaves with regret, and has to balance his own personal comfort and academic mission with his service to the Harvard community...
Harvard College administrators expressed similar regret over the circumstances surrounding the tutor's resignation...
...regret Mr. Muhammad's resignation," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 wrote in an e-mail message. "He has been a good tutor and we will miss him. I certainly understand that he leaves with regret, and has to balance his own personal comfort and academic mission with his service to the Harvard community...