Quotes About Outcome

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

It"s not your fault you had no siblings," he told her. "You have no experience in intrafamilial squabbles. Trust me, it all works out in the end. I predict we shall manage to get all four to adulthood with at least fifteen of their major limbs intact.

If I do this, then that will happen, but if I do that, then this, this, and the other thing will happen, which will yield an entirely different result, which could mean that—

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

Being willing to risk it all for any given climb will inevitably end at some point in disaster.

Whether I win or not, it won't be down to inexperience and hopefully it won't be down to some sort of mental misjudgment.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

I rather like finding out instantly whether you've been successful or not. It's a cliche, really, but the fact is that every gig is different: it's a live event, and you're with a different group of individuals every night.

If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

If you take a long time over a record, you end up making something different from what you intended.

We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

I believe you can never fail in life or love. You just produce results. It's up to you how you interpret those results.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Each day the forces of evil and the forces of good enlist new recruits. Each day we personally make many decisions showing the cause we support. The final outcome is certain---the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle---and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to our last days and fulfill our foreordained missions?

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

It often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter are the consequences.

Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.

Sipelgate jaoks on nende tegevus ülioluline, aga meie teame, et piisab vaid ühest jalahoobist, et nende väikeste ja pidevate pingutuste vili kaotsi läheks. Ja sipelgad ei mõista eales, miks nii läks.

profit is the by-product of a successful enterprise not its raison d'être.