Quotes About Outcome

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

I know that when you take a risk, the consequence will never be a neutral response; it will either be very positive or very negative.

I never expect anything; I just go make a movie. I do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens.

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

If I have my best year yet in 2018 but we're 8-8, I didn't go to the next level. That's the reality of it.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.

I get mad at football coaches who are afraid to call for a big play early in the game, you know, because they want to still be in the game at the end, and then it turns out they have no chance but a Hail Mary or something similar to that at the end.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

I never make a choice thinking about the results. I'm never gonna take a role or a project thinking where this could - what this could bring me or something like that, because you've got no control about anything, actually.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

There are no guarantees. If you spent money, it's no guarantee you win stuff.

I have to say, when you make a movie, you really have no idea how it's going to turn out as an actor. The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

If a movie crosses budget and becomes a hit, no one cares. They care only when it doesn't do well.

There's no point in playing well and losing.

There is no point winning the semi if you don't win the final. It's as simple as that. No one will remember a big semifinal if you lose the final, so you have to do it all again.

At the end of the day, everything boils down to money and if the film doesn't do well, then there's no point.

Honestly... I've never felt pressure working in basketball. There's no pressure at all. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

And, after all, no one ever said that life was fair; what you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

You made the decision, not I, and every decision has consequences. You have to take responsibility for the choices you make.

The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science and art. With Stephen it's all empathy and imagination and exploration and the shock of the new, and the outcome is... uncertain, if you know what I mean. I'm engaged by it, but I', mot necessarily sure what its all about. David, on the other hand, presses this button, then that one, and bingo! It's like operating a lift - just as romantic, but actually just as useful.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

When we pay attention to life, it is easy to recognize that every action has a consequence: when we cling, we suffer; when we act selfishly or violently, we cause suffering for ourselves or others. This is the teaching of karma: positive actions have positive outcomes; negative actions have negative outcomes.

Well, a good place to start if you want to know what something was about is to look to see what changes it introduced. And particularly in the case of a war planned in advance where the outcome was never in any doubt, I think you have solid reason to believe the result was what the thing was really for in the first place.