Quotes About Outcome

thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His

did that attitude work? Of course not.

Tomorrow is 100 percent based on the negotiations you do today.

Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

Don't be sad when you fail and happy when you succeed. Both are going to happen again and again at every new level.

What do you think is going to happen? What we make happen, says Joseph—again, with resolution. That's easy to say, says Frank. Not if you mean it, says Joseph.

What you think is going to happen?" "What we make happen," says Joseph—again, with resolution.

Everyone gets luck, good and bad, but 10X winners make more of the luck they get.

What's the role of luck? Our research showed that the great companies were not generally luckier than the comparisons—they didn't get more good luck, less bad luck, bigger spikes of luck, or better timing of luck. Instead, they got a higher return on luck, making more of their luck than others.

We defined a "luck event" as one that meets three tests: First, you didn't cause it; second, it has a significant potential consequence, good or bad; and third, it has an element of surprise, some aspect of the event is unpredictable before it happens.

we also found comparable amounts of luck in the control set of comparison cases we studied! The big winners did not generally get more good luck, less bad luck, bigger spikes of luck, or better-timed luck than their comparisons. What the best achieved, instead, was a higher return on luck.

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful… everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.

if you succeed or fail, what does it matter? The try will live forever!

Neither triumphalism, condemnation, nor apology does intellectual or emotional justice to the brute reality of this savage war, the outcome of which could not have been known in the moment.

It's an uncomfortable fact that leaving the European Union in a way that is true to the referendum result is becoming harder and harder to deliver.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can't just say, 'No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn't do it.' You can't blame anyone else.

The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.

It's football. Sometimes it's unfair.

With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold.

Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.

I don't want to feel what I'm creating on film has an outcome that is preordained. I don't think of the world as a place with a divinity that shapes our end. What you try to do with film is create, as far as you possibly can, an unfolding present - a theatre in which an outcome happens and is tested.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.