Quotes About Outcome

What would cutting the man apart accomplish?

Kahneman termed the "Peak-End rule": an average of the pain experienced at just two moments—the single worst moment of the procedure and the very end. [...] Your remembering self is attempting to recognize not only the peaks of joy and valleys of misery but also how the story works out as a whole. That is profoundly affected by how things ultimately turn out.

No matter what she'd done, you have to say... You have to say, 'It wouldn't have made a bit if difference.

Where this healthy self-empathy turns into a malignant self-pity is at the arrival of resentment. "Fuck everybody. Nobody gives a shit about me. Fuck them all." That is self-pity and it is dangerous because it signals a lack of accountability for one's mental state and, worse, the outcome of one's life.

That is self-pity and it is dangerous because it signals a lack of accountability for one's mental state and, worse, the outcome of one's life.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes.

When you predicted an apocalypse, you needed sooner or later to produce one.

That is how the dream begins. All around me, something is awaiting my consent, my inner acquiescence, and I know, or rather the knowledge exists, that I must not give way to an unknown temptation, for the more the silence seems to promise, the more terrible the outcome will be. Yet I essentially know no such thing, because I would be afraid if I knew, and I never felt the slightest fear.

Several studies show that it is a woman's degree of satisfaction with either the housewife role or paid work, and the continuity of her work experience when she does work, that best correlates with positive outcomes in her children.

Meant to be allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believing that we had ownership, that we could have done something to change the outcome. It's lazier than The Clapper.

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to them.

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to them.

We all get an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to us.

Begin with the end in mind

The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is going to be.

Is that where it all went wrong? Or is it where it all went right?

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip

Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from the evidence? Might it not equally well determine that we draw the wrong conclusion? Or no conclusion at all?

In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is.

Only time (whatever that may be) will tell.

Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it!

There is a history of the universe in which England win the World Cup again, though maybe the probability is low.

Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And