Quotes About Outcome

the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...

If you've lost, you've lost.

But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.

esperaba... esperaba a lo largo de las horas el éxito o el fracaso de un esfuerzo.

Your Life today is a Reflection of your Actions of Yesterday and will determine the Consequences of Tomorrow.

Strap a piece of toast -buttered side up- to the back of a cat. Throw the cat out of the window. Will the cat land on its feet or will Murphy's law apply?

To win is to win, and to lose is to lose

Your choices have more consequences than your impulses.

Disaster often comes in the long run from suboptimal decisions in the short run

only measure that matters is

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.

I wish the 'Dark Phoenix' saga had been done more effectively than it was, but that was out of my hands.

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

I believe in picking a strong ending.

On draft day, I wasn't really nervous at all. Then you turn on the draft, the first five picks go by, and then you still thinking, 'Oh man, I don't know where I'm going to go.' It's really just, by the time draft hits, that's when you get nervous.

If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

I've done so many pilots I thought were good that didn't work, and so many that I thought were bad that did work.

Words are fine, but the most important thing is what happens on the pitch.

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.