Quotes About Outcome

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

He was particularly dissatisfied with Aristotle's insistence that tragedy should invariably depict the downfall of a flawed or 'middling' hero, insisting instead that what made a tragedy was the severity of the threat rather than the play's actual outcome.

Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn't fantastic any longer, it's inevitable. The inevitable is what you're doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn't do.

Things usually work out in the end. What if they don't? That just means you haven't gotten to the end yet.

The end of every game is an anti-climax. What you thought you would feel you don't feel, what you thought was so important isn't any more. It's the game that's exciting.

He who wills the end, wills the means also, and the means must involve some risks, and even some losses.

What you get is what you get. What you DO with what you get, though...that's more the point, wouldn't you say -Doon's Father

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, though . . . that's more the point, wouldn't you say?

Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.

Seuls les actes décident de ce qu'on a voulu.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

You can do crap work in a big movie, and it does good things. You can do great work in a movie no one sees, it does nothing. That's the way it goes.