Quotes About Outcome

If you don't know where you're going, you might not like where you end up.

In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot — and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.

post?' At first, he said yes and Ashley started retreating. Then David decided he didn't need him there after all. Ashley came back towards the 18 yard line just as Zizou stepped up towards the ball. Did we, for whatever reason, let our concentration drop for a split second? If we did, it cost us. I'd say, though, that that equaliser was all about the

Prior preparation prevents poor performance.

Beginners luck or what not in your beginning does not equal long term success only short term

You Can't receive what you don't sow

Where a relatively small proportion of those participating in a given activity create most of the value, it is all but mathematically impossible for them to be left better off by a coerced outcome that averages incomes.

What's gonna happen'll happen.

And so, we have failed. But we have also succeeded.

The future of the human race outweighs all. Every death and every sacrifice are well worth the ultimate outcome.

Well, you know how things go sometimes. Bada-boom bada-bing, and you died, too. - Dak

The choice is yours. Certain death, or death uncertain. Choose.

Alais: You saved them. You maneuvered it. Eleanor: Did I? Alais: They're free because of you. They'll kill him one day; you know that Eleanor: The next time or the next Alais: You always win, Maman. Eleanor: Except the prize.

You can spit until you're dry, but you'll never make a lake

Moments of truth can be thought of as a special type of touchpoint. They are critical, emotionally charged interactions, and usually occur when someone has invested a high degree of energy in a desired outcome. Moments of truth either make or break the relationship.

James L. Stokesbury

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring the ship in?

The rules of an infinite game must change in the course of play. The rules are changed when the players of an infinite game agree that the play is imperiled by a finite outcome-that is, by the victory of some players and the defeat of others.

If the losers are dead, the dead are also losers. There is a contradiction here: If the prize for winning finite play is life, then the players are not properly alive. They are competing for life. Life, then, is not play, but the outcome of play. Finite players play to live; they do not live their playing. Life is therefore deserved, bestowed, possessed, won. It is not lived.

Those who challenge the existing pattern of entitlements in a society do not consider the designated officers of enforcement powerful; they consider them opponents in a struggle that will determine by its outcome who is powerful. One does not win by power; one wins to be powerful.

We display the success of what we have done by not having to do anything.

Let us say that where the finite player plays to be powerful the infinite player plays with strength. A powerful person is one who brings the past to an outcome, settling all its unresolved issues. A strong person is one who carries the past into the future, showing that none of its issues is capable of resolution.

Power is concerned with what has already happened; strength with what has yet to happen.

The rules of an infinite game must change in the course of play. The rules are changed when the players of an infinite game agree that the play is imperiled by a finite outcome—that is, by the victory of some players and the defeat of others. The