Quotes About Outcome

sometime when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

When a prism was activated, a quantum measurement was performed inside the device, with two possible outcomes of equal probability:

A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

I don't think spending money is a guarantee for anything.

I firmly believe that philanthropy is most effective and outcome-oriented when you ensure that your pledge actually gets spent.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it. How you see it in your head is never how you see it on the screen, so it's almost like an out of body experience.

The remake of 'Gulaabi Aankhein' went into a bad spin and I'll only hold myself responsible for it. I shouldn't have done it.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Leaving the E.U. was not the outcome that I wanted or campaigned, but now that democracy has spoken, we must act on that result. I will fully respect that result.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Luck is what you have left over after you give ioo percent.