Quotes About Outcome

getting what you wanted never turned out the way you'd thought it would.

There are probably a dozen perfect happy endings you could write. And a thousand bittersweet ones, and at least a million that are gloriously tragic. Alas, you only get to pick one.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

People don't want what you make They want what it will do for them.

We hesitate to make a promise like "the show will be on at 11:30," because we're not sure we can meet the deadline and make it happen in a way that allows us to control the outcome.

Annie Duke, former world champion of poker, teaches us that there's a huge gap between a good decision and a good outcome. A good decision is based on what we know of the options and the odds. A good outcome happens or it doesn't: it is a consequence of the odds, not the hidden answer.

Relieved of this easily measured outcome, I could focus on the practice alone. I focused on the rhythm, on my posture, on the magic of the physics of casting. At some point, the professional has to bring home the fish. That's the fuel that permits the professional to show up each day. But the catch is the side effect of the practice itself. Get the practice right, and your commitment will open the door for the market to engage with your work.

For me, marketing works for society when the marketer and consumer are both aware of whats happening and are both satisfied with the ultimate outcome.

The Two Reasons Seeing the Future Is So Difficult Attachment to an outcome combined with the resistance and fear of change.

How you choose to respond to each moment of the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.

If everyone does as I've instructed, then things should work out the way they're meant to. (Acheron) And if we don't? (Talon) We're all screwed. (Acheron) Gee, Ash, you're just so damn comforting. (Nick) I try to be anyway. (Acheron) You fail admirably. (Nick)

There's always hope, Apostolos. Of all men, you know that. It's only when you stop trying to affect the outcome of your life that you're truly defeated. What will come will come. It's how we deal with the shit in between that shapes us. (Savitar)

To make an omelet you must first break some eggs.

But if fate won't be denied...if it's set, how could there be infinite possibilities? (Kat) Only certain aspects are fated. The outcome isn't. It was fated that Sin would loose his godhood. The means and what followed were determined by free will. Free will is that one scary variable that sets so much into motion that no one, not even I, have control over. (Acheron)

Every step we take is one inch closer to our salvation and one foot closer to our doom.

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.