Quotes About Outcome

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Smiley always came out a winner on that pup, till he bet on a dog once that didn't have no rear legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw accident. When the fight had gone along far

Les jeux sont faits. Nous sommes fucked.

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.

Who ever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Everything you do today impacts the next day as well as the future.

Whoever said 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts' probably lost.

Whoever proves right in the end must first be and do wrong. But it is only after the fact that we learn who was right to begin with.

Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown.

In the end it didn't matter of course.

He broke the eggs but burned the omelette.

That left only one possibility:

What's the shortest time you've seen and the longest time you've seen for people who took no treatment? Three months was the shortest, she said, three years the longest. And with treatment? She got mumbly. Finally she said that the longest might not have been that much more than three years. But with treatment, the average should shift toward the longer end.

Such successes are not quite the result of logical thinking. But they are not the result of mere luck, either.

And a patient's likelihood of winning a suit depended primarily on how poor his or her outcome was, regardless of whether that outcome was caused by disease or unavoidable risks of care.

terrible. But as it turned out, we'd done more good than we could have hoped for.

But that proved not to be the case.

There is almost always a long tail of possibility, however thin. What's wrong with looking for it? Nothing, it seems to me, unless it means we have failed to prepare for the outcome that's vastly more probable.

Mostly, the experiments did more harm than good.

once trouble occurred everything unfolded almost automatically:

Even with the simplest operation, it cannot be taken for granted that a patient will come through better off—or even alive.