Quotes About Outcome

when what felt like a wide distribution of probable outcomes narrows to the inevitable.

It went fine for us," I said. "But based on what I just saw, we better win this thing or the country is screwed.

I figure if it works, we get through this. If it doesn't, we probably lose. But either way, I'll be saying what I believe.

How'd it go?" he asked. I thought for a moment. "It went fine for us," I said. "But based on what I just saw, we better win this thing or the country is screwed.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.

What a knot of history one mistake can become.

The human person cannot face up to a bad outcome, that's just the deal.

Anybody will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.

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Because of a ubiquitous feature of human psychology, very little in life turns out quite as good as we expect it will be.

ANYTIME YOU MAKE A DECISION AND IT DOESN'T TURN OUT WELL or you find an alternative that would have turned out better, you're a candidate for regret.

Postdecision regret is sometimes referred to as "buyer's remorse.

If we are responsible for an action that turns out badly and if it almost turned out well, then we are prime candidates for regret.

have seen that two of the factors affecting regret are Personal responsibility for the result How easily an individual can imagine a counterfactual, better alternative

If people err systematically and substantially in making those predictions, it's likely that they will make some bad decisions—decisions that produce regret, even when events turn out well.

The fact that counterfactual thinking seems to hone in on the controllable aspects of a situation only increases the chances that a person will experience regret when engaging in counterfactual thinking.

Had we to do it over again," he said in an interview sixteen months after the invasion, "we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success.

The rightness of things is generally revealed in retrospect, and you're unlikely to know in advance what is right and wrong in a story that has not yet been written.

While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law. They are out in the Circle of Concern. We can decide to step in front of a fast-moving train, but we cannot decide what will happen when the train hits us.

Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation, to all things.

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

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