Quotes About Outcome

When he blew up, close to a couple of decades of performance were overshadowed by a single event that only lasted a few minutes.

By the mechanism of retrospective determinism we will find the "cause"—actually

Uncertainty did occasionally pay off there.

should avoid engaging in an action with a big downside if one has no idea of the outcomes.

reality doesn't care about winning arguments: survival is what matters.

judged by their actions, not by the results. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty.

The payoff, what happens to you (the benefits or harm from it), is always the most important thing, not the event itself.

you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other.

the probability (hence True/False) does not work in the real world; it is the payoff that matters.

the mistake may turn out to be inconsequential. Or

But since abundance would bring the opposite effect

Clearly, the quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome

Well, boys," she said, "here it is. The worst is happening at last.

But, to tell you my private mind, Signor Giovanni, he should receive little credit for such instances of success - they being probably the work of chance - but should be held strictly accountable for his failures, which may justly be considered his own work.

Hindsight has a way of corrupting people's memories, inviting them to view a past event not as it actually occurred but as they wished it had occurred given the ultimate result.

But there's a road to hell for every good intention.

Pero de cada buena intención sale un camino hacia el infierno.

We are all tested in this life. The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

If we go through with this, he said, I will make it clear to the High Blade that it was at your insistence. If we fail, and your existence is ended, the blame will be yours and your alone. I can live with that, Citra told him. No, Scythe Constantine pointed out, you won't.

Well, we lost it, and that's all there is to that.

I remember your saying: make it or break it. neither happened and it won't.

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

This prophecy has turned out entirely and miserably wrong.