Quotes About Outcome

But you have a way of pushing decisions down the road. It's like you're waiting to be sure how it'll pan out before you decide. But that never works. We can't ever know that going in. I think you just need to choose a path and see where it takes you.

I didn't know if I had saved a life or not. For that, the person you tried to save has to survive.

Funny how we do things before there's even time to think how it will turn out.

The process of measurement must have a beginning and end. The establishment of those points has an effect on the outcome.

Don Ciccio went away muttering to himself, 'And there's the thanks you get! It's always the same, if they get better then it's Our Lady's mercy, but if they die it's all our fault.

When you choose the path, you choose the destination.

Deliberately and spiritedly doing the opposite of what it takes to get there yet you expect to get there. This is one of the true definitions of madness.

Do you fear doing it? You haven't started feeling the effect of not doing it.

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

We are responsible for most of what happens to us.

What is the biggest obstacle to creativity? Attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you're doing and in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities. Creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.

What boots up must come down.

Choice is the hinge of destiny.

often a mountain decision is a molehill in retrospect— and sometimes vice versa later on when we reflect

You are fate's shadow or fate's sun, depending on which way you turn.

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

No cabía predecir lo que había de suceder, porque, con todo lo dotado de vida, las cosas ocurrían siempre, por una razón u otra, de modo distinto.

we can but try to do good. And you did. What he's done with it is up to him.

So what? You're no worse off than if you hadn't asked. At least this way you give yourself a fifty-fifty chance

The story takes up space as a knot in a piece of wood. If the knot is removed, a hole remains. We must ask ourselves, how will this hole that we have opened be filled? The hole, Maisie, is our responsibility.

ALL that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct end result of his very own mind.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it luck; do not see the long and arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it good fortune; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it chance.