Quotes About Outcome

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

If the NDA doesn't get a majority, that will not upset the market so much... but a situation where the BJP and NDA are not able to form the government that will be very troublesome for the market. But I think that is not likely.

The shorter the game is then the bigger the chance of an upset.

But you can never take anything for granted in the FA Cup, because an upset is always only just around the corner, and I have experienced those too.

I will say - and not to sound arrogant - people would have been upset if I failed my cash-in. Yeah, it would not have been a good move. I didn't really think that was going to happen, but you never know. It's always a possibility.

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.