Quotes About Outcome

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

an intention precedes every thought and every action, and that the outcome of your experiences is determined by your intention going in. It sounds complicated, but really there is nothing I do that doesn't start with my asking myself, what is my intention in doing this?

Gary taught me that an intention precedes every thought and every action, and that the outcome of your experiences is determined by your intention going in. It sounds complicated, but really there is nothing I do that doesn't start with my asking myself, What is my intention in doing this?

healthy changes in the case of the rats with control over the stress, and deterioration and dysregulation in the others.

an intention precedes every thought and every action, and that the outcome of your experiences is determined by your intention going in.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content--these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.

Higher education is the only product where the consumer tries to get as little out of it as possible. —Arnold Kling, "College Customers vs. Suppliers"41

We cannot predict how God will work, only that he will succeed.

Life only gives us exactly what we ask for, both good and bad. The real challenge is in understanding the subtle ways in which we ask.

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

The key of strategy ... is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory.

The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it

The end is not obvious at the beginning, Artabanus, Book 7 Herodotus

The evil plan is most harmful to the planner

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better.

Naturally, also, both sides were convinced they had right on their side, not that either was remotely naive enough to think that had any possible bearing on the outcome whatsoever.

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.