Quotes About Outcome

The main thing is winning. Stats aren't that important, but I think in the end things will work themselves out.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

The only thing that follows work is results.

I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.

Stimulus does not work.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

I think I have stopped being nervous about the outcome of a film. The five consecutive flops in 1997 and the five consecutive hits in 1999 have mellowed me in many ways.

I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: a project that should never have been built was built, and built badly.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

Confidence is about taking chances, and never doubting the outcome.

No. It's not about luck, I don't believe in luck. There are facts and opportunities and realities, and how you respond to them determines whether you succeed or fail.