Quotes About Outcome

The choices of one shape the futures of all'?

The past happened because a hundred little random things had to fall exactly into place in exactly the right way, in exactly the proper sequence, and while it was easy to accept the good results, one could only rage at the bad ones.

The worst punishment there is for wanting the wrong thing is getting it.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

However: the predictable consequence of the nanny state, even the post-ideological nanny state, was that for anyone who had grown up knowing nothing different it was the duty of the state to make good on its promise of an ever better society—and thus the fault of the state when things did not turn out well.

only one party that could represent and advance the interests of that class: the Communists; and only one correct outcome to the workers' struggle under Communist direction: the Revolution, as patented in Russia fifty years before.

Second, clarify what you really don't want. This is the key to framing the and question. Think of what you are afraid will happen to you if you back away from your current strategy of trying to win or stay safe. What bad thing will happen if you stop pushing so hard? Or if you don't try to escape? What horrible outcome makes game-playing an attractive and sensible option?

The goal was to center his mind on playing the shot at hand, rather than obsessing, at exactly the wrong moment, about the consequences.

Some 300 years earlier, in Leviathan, Hobbes had anticipated precisely such a notion16 with his concept of 'force and fraud': the idea that violence and cunning constitute the primary, indeed the sole, instigators of outcomes. And that the only analgesic for 'continual fear, and the danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short' is to be found in the sanctuary of agreement. The formation of alliances with others.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

What comes is called.

You can't outrun the inevitable.

God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey is she had her way.

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain," Chakotay said with equal certainty. "So is the road to peace," Cambridge observed.

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

History is the sum total of all the things that could have been avoided.

I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority of the time in a pollen and bird poop covered car. This presents a stand off between Neat Freakshow and Practical Pennypincher, and Neat Freak usually triumphs. And then it rains.

in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.

The society as a whole is neither better nor worse off. If

From action or inaction each one of us derives a gain or a loss and at the same time one causes a gain or a loss to some one else.

them,"We accept all responsibility. Let us do our job, and then you can judge the results.

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you're not the best—it's all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome . They're tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues. Maybe they haven't found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.