Quotes About Outcome

I feel like if you put something out into the universe, then you increase your chances of it happening.

You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

Equity' is only two letters away from 'equality,' after all, and who would object to that? But in those two letters is a world of difference. 'Equity' is intrinsically unjust because it demands equality of outcome and not equality of opportunity.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

I had a feeling 'Star Wars' might do well, but I didn't anticipate just how well.

Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

It ain't how you start out, it's how you finish.

It's one of those things: you can't really control how much you play or when you play, but when your number's called, I think if you make the most of your opportunities in this league, that's what makes good players. That's what I've tried to do in my short time being a starter, and good things have come from it.

Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.

If you look at my career statistics, it's not pretty.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it's good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it.

Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.

to study a situation, evaluate its facts, decide which ones were meaningful, develop a course of action in response to work toward a desired outcome, and verbalize the orders that needed to be issued. Those are the basic steps in critical thinking

reaping the whirlwind:

Successes, in other words, are generally seen as confirmations of one's underlying strategy, whereas failures tend to be thought of only as failures of outcome, not as failures of strategy.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.