Quotes About Outcome

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea.

But there was only one inevtiable end, and there was nothing they could do but go towards it.

War Plan Orange seemed to recap the dismal career of the Russian fleet under Admiral Rozhestvensky in 1905, and who could say with confidence that the result would not be the same?

Even so, the Americans had needed more than a few strokes of good luck. The battle had been a near-run thing, and easily might have gone the other way.

There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me. Then we're doomed for sure.

I'm curious, have you ever attempted to prevent her from doing what she wanted to do? I'd be delighted to hear how it went.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

You can think one thing about what your dream could be and it could end up being a disaster or a masterpiece.

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

When you're going good or bad, those balls that trickle through the hole or fall in between people, that mentally boosts how you feel, how you're playing.

Even if you are lucky enough to sell a trilogy, you don't know if you'll ever get to write that whole trilogy. I have many friends who had very long arcs planned in multi-book series that they never got to write because the first book didn't perform.

They were looking for someone to play the neighbor of the Jeffersons. I thought it would be a nice trip to Los Angeles. When you get a call like that, you don't expect much to come of it.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.

The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.