Quotes About Outcome

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

We may think the following a prime example of a response to a stimulus: I clap my hands, and the cat shies away, hiding under the sofa. The following is just as good an example: I throw the cat into the fire, and she burns to ashes.' The first is a life-process: it is something that plays a certain role in a cat's life. The second is not: it is a purely physical process which the cat undergoes.

Unless, of course, you stop, really think about it, consciously intervene, override your past programs, and choose the outcome of the vote for yourself.

While the elective use of angioplasty and stents has skyrocketed over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been no change in the rate of heart attacks. Lange

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.

You are exactly who you are because of the thoughts you allow to dominate and occupy your mind. Your thoughts determine your goals. Your faith, combined with those goals, determines your outcome. By taking control of your thoughts, applying faith to them, and then taking action, you become the master of your life. You begin to live your life deliberately. You fulfill your purpose.

In this book, all results from the flipping of coins result from the flipping of actual coins.

It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy.

The best revenge is the time. Time takes it's revenge all the time.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

there was many a slip twixt cup and lip.

each person 'intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention'. Yet

the market system makes self interest into something thoroughly virtuous.' This is the extraordinary feature of markets: just as they can turn many individually irrational individuals into a collectively rational outcome, so they can turn many individually selfish motives into a collectively kind result.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

Pero, desde luego, inversión es un vocablo de significado relativo. Depende de lo que se quiera conseguir.

Obrando con razón y justicia, sólo se podía llegar a un resultado.

we better win this thing or the country is screwed.