Quotes About Outcome

EVENT + REACTION = OUTCOME Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only.

It's hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines.

The difference, she decided, was that now there was something to be done. Hell would be raised, and Oberon would come or not, but at least there would be no more idle tears. The night would end in joy or ruin, and somehow that was easier to abide than an endless, static grief.

It hurts, because we wanted a different outcome, but then we make it hurt even worse by creating a narrative around what happened. So, instead of creating that debilitating narrative, I think we're better served realizing that now, we have an opportunity to pivot - to take our life in a different direction.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

It is a fool who repeats the same actions expecting a different outcome.

Ne kemi nevojë për dy burra: një të heshtur për dashuri dhe një të zgjuar, që ta dëgjojmë gjithë ditën. Ose asnjë, sepse ndjenjat që investohen qëndrojnë në një raport të papranueshëm me rezultatin.

Let us consider an even simpler example of a random variable, the number obtained when you throw just one die. (Pedantic note : this is the singular of the word whose plural is dice. Two dice, one die. Like two mice, one mie.)(Well, two mice, one mouse. Like two hice, one house. Peculiar language, English.)

envisioning a positive outcome has helped her speak with presence. For her first staff meeting at her former position as publisher of People en Español, Jackie envisioned herself passionately speaking to the group. An image of a successful meeting primed her to make it happen.

you can lose a competition and not choke, just like you can give a great presentation and not get the job. Choking has more to do with the effects of pressure on performance than on the outcome.

A gun gives you the body, not the bird.

In the vacuum of authority following the demonstrations' initial success, factions from the pre-uprising period are often in a position to shape the outcome.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

But death is not always a bad outcome, you know, and a quick death can be better than a slow one.

You might think the operation has been a success because the patient leaves the hospital alive but if you saw them years later – as I often do – you would realize that the result of the operation was a human disaster.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn't than end up wishing I had.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...

The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences.

But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not come to pass, these hints would have been forgotten, as thousands and millions of suggestions and supposition are now forgotten that were current at the period, but have been shown by time to be unfounded and so have been consigned to oblivion.