Quotes About Outcome

Happy endings are still endings.

Experience has always shown, and reason shows, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Las causas no podemos reconocerlas nunca, todo lo que percibimos son los efectos. Lo que identificamos como causa en realidad no es más que un… presagio. Si suelto este lápiz, se caerá al suelo. Que el hecho de soltarlo constituya la causa de la caída puede creerlo un estudiante, pero yo no. Soltarlo es sencillamente el presagio infalible de la caída.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

An accident which should have caused the death of only five hundred instead of five thousand persons, but on the same day and in public, as the outcome of an accident appealing strongly to the eye, by the fall, for instance, of the Eiffel Tower, would have produced, on the contrary, an immense impression on the imagination of the crowd.

Men are ruled by ideas, sentiments, and customs—matters which are of the essence of ourselves. Institutions and laws are the outward manifestation of our character, the expression of its needs. Being its outcome, institutions and laws cannot change this character.

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]

against Romans based upon conclusions about its causes, course, and outcome. The story of the Temple's destruction is often seen as the paradigmatic, if not unprecedented, warning or lesson for Jews and others. Sin will be punished; great sin will be greatly punished.61

or insignificant. Its outcome changed the course of Judaea's history, of Rome's history, and that of the world. Nor is the story over. The efforts to give the war meaning continue, and not only among the priestly courses of historians and archaeologists.

Strength is the outcome of need.

A bit, fundamentally, is always a coin toss.

The thing about all complexes, splinter personalities, and fractal assignments is that they have no imagination. The can only replay the old events, scripts, and moribund outcome of their origin. But we do have an imagination, the power to image something new, or at least alternative.

how many decisions did you make that at the time seemed inconsequential but down the track had enormous influence on either you or others?

It's really crucial not to flip out that a certain task or skill won't be done correctly if you don't do it yourself. In fact, it's really pivotal when you can place innate faith into people who work for you. Delegation gives you a chance to improve your end result, or final outcome. 2 The

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

So, that went well, said Fang.

Someone who shakes a tree needs to be ready for what might fall on him. - Craig Carney

You know," Melanie says, "most of the time things turn out well." "You're wrong. Most of the time things do not turn out well, and when they do, it's dangerous to expect that to last.

Birds coming home to roost.

would have done it. He had his chance in the alleyway.

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.

What I would rather see, what I think would be the best outcome, is a very close relationship between the United Kingdom and the E.U.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see.