Quotes About Outcome

He said, "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me" (Job 3:25). If you're afraid of something, you're going to attract it.

The more we embrace opportunities, the more we appreciate the outcome.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

Forget about style; worry about results.

Have you ever heard of the law of large numbers? If you carry on betting large sums day after day, then sooner or later you are bound to win everything back." As far

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get." Robert A. Heinlein

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

Some of these investments will pay off, others will not, and we will have learned another valuable lesson in either case.

All new hires had to directly improve the outcome of the company. He wanted doers—engineers, developers, perhaps merchandise buyers, but not managers. "We didn't want to be a monolithic army of program managers, à la Microsoft.

I have to choose between agreement and conflict, I'll take conflict every time," Bezos often said. "It always yields a better result.

All new hires had to directly improve the outcome of the company. He wanted doers—engineers, developers, perhaps merchandise buyers, but not managers. "We didn't want to be a monolithic army of program managers, à la Microsoft. We wanted independent teams to be entrepreneurial," says Neil Roseman. Or, as Roseman also put it: "Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste, but you probably don't want to see how it was made.

Nearly never kills a bird

They said later that Mrs. Merriweather was putting her all into the grand finale, that she had crooned, Po-ork, with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on cue. She waited a few seconds, then called, Po-ork? When nothing materialized, she yelled, Pork!

We can influence the other person through our words and silence, but we can never control the outcome.

A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

Y si lo piensas, verás que, aunque creamos que tomamos decisiones equivocadas, seguramente todo habría acabado como acabó. Habríamos llegado al mismo punto en que estamos.

El destino se lleva siempre su parte y no se retira hasta obtener lo que le corresponde.

I have sown Dragon's teeth and reaped only fleas.

I have written and said countless times it is not what happens to you in life that makes a difference! It is how we react to what happens to us in life that creates our history and - more importantly - our future!

There is always a possibility that you could lose, because the outcome isn't written yet: you have to go out and write it. If you want it bad enough, if you do the training and prepare yourself to succeed, and do everything in your power to win, you'll have a better chance of succeeding.