1. Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.
A new survey of donors who used text messages to send gifts to charities after the earthquake that crumpled Haiti two years ago finds that for most of them, it was an impulse decision with fleeting impact.
Always try to wait a few days to check whether the desire to buy something is fleeting ― is your decision based on your particular state of mind or is it objectively a good idea?
At the same time, admissions officers seldom meet the flesh-and-blood students they are evaluating, basing decisions on fleeting reviews of paper.
Moving Ben Cohen to full-back against a side with Ireland's kicking ability was a bizarre tactical gambit and, despite the massive efforts of Lewis Moody, Martin Corry and Joe Worsley, there were only fleeting signs of instinctive decision-making and imagination to complement the home side's obvious forward power.
For a fleeting moment, I considered the decision to take it off, for good.
The closest he came to a major tactical decision was his fleeting intention to withdraw from the Henry Hill line when he briefly mistook [the advance of Johnston's reinforcements for the arrival of fresh Union troops]." Nonetheless, Beauregard received the bulk of the acclaim from the press and general public.
Moreover, Ford is not known for reversing strategic decisions on such fleeting considerations.
And there might also be cases of "knowledge without a shelf life," that is, knowledge of fleeting events that affect our decision-making for only an instant, after which time knowledge of such events will forever after be practically irrelevant, or at least no more practically relevant than a mere true belief that such events occurred (Hyman 2010: 409).
But President Trump showed that was a fleeting win when he reversed the decision and granted permission to drill under Lake Oahe, a federal waterway. .
