Quotes About Outcome

But since I could find nothing equivocal or neurotic in the facts about the son's relation to his father, I had no warrant for disturbing the young man's feelings with such a destructive pronouncement. To do so would have prejudiced the outcome of the treatment.

So end the Miller fantasies. Their melancholy outcome is due largely to the fact that they break off at the critical moment when the threat of invasion by the unconscious is plainly apparent.

Was it worth it?" she sighed "I have found it is always worth fighting for what we believe in, regardless of the outcome. Risk is never without consequence.

Every step I took could lead me to glory or tragedy; every choice I made had a consequence. My fate was in my hands.

your world is the outcome of what you pay attention to,

to actively try to work through these decisions will lead to a worse outcome than loading up the relevant information and then moving on to something else while letting the subconscious layers of your mind mull things over.

Whatever we're hoping to see, it never quite meets that bar.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Where You Go Hereafter Depends upon What You Go After Here

She did what she did, then left the rest of us to deal with it.

Be careful. You may get exactly what you wish for.

No matter how much we cling to hope our stories seldom end as we expect.

Though we want to believe that violence is a matter of cause and effect, it is actually a process, a chain in which the violent outcome is only one link. The

When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Una vez que un accidente pasa, no hay vuelta atrás.

Fate is an excuse, a way to remove blame and therefore guilt for poor decision making. Free choice decides the outcome of your life, not fate.

Stupid. Put your hope in the right thing, and it would be a lifeline. Put your hope in the wrong thing, and it would be a noose.

But our present will always be the sum total of decisions made in our past.

Features are always a gamble. If you're lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits.

Up-front analysis helps us identify the smallest possible piece of work that will usefully achieve a business outcome using

One of the problems of prevention is that you rarely know about the disasters you averted.

As has been proven time and again, the further the distance between the person doing the work (i.e., the change implementer) and the person deciding to do the work (i.e., the change authorizer), the worse the outcome.

how we organize our teams has a powerful effect on the software we produce, as well as our resulting architectural and production outcomes. In