Quotes About Outcome

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

Finding out the truth doesn't always work out for the best!

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

Work backward from your goal.

You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

I don't get stressed out about my films because the box-office collection is not in my control.

The response to 'Kadamban' was strictly average; all of us know about it. The result didn't match our efforts and it was a let-down. We slogged hard and gave it our all, but failure is part of the game.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

I was on 'Strictly' because I was getting stage fright. I was taught that I had to imagine what a good outcome would be and be happy with it.

I'm not always trying to strike out guys. It just kind of happens sometimes.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.