Quotes About Outcome

Non... Les jeux sont faits. On ne reprend pas son coup

So as a last resort, can deconstruction be described as a project? Not if it has an outcome staked out in advance, a goal which predetermines its movements. Such a goal would govern foundationally. Deconstruction might clear pathways for its movements, but not knowing entirely where they lead.

After all, behavior is the ultimate determiner of survival.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

and I have always found that if things have a choice of directions, they are most likely to go downhill.

But before I could decide which choice to jump at, life intervened, as it usually does, and made the decision for me.

As an assistant coach at Picayune High School, he helped a team that had gone 0–10 the year before…to go 0–10 again. "With all my expertise in coaching," he wrote, "we came close to winning a game.

But it works that way if it works.

toss a weighted paper bag out.

But most often she watched the candles as if their outcome held her own, the flames almost extinguishing themselves, but, by some greed of oxygen, persisting.

her as she gracefully seated herself. "It helps to remember that the one who loses their temper has relinquished control of a situation. The one who remains calm controls the outcome.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river. If it sees that you are waiting for it and are anxious, it will never even sing. You have to go away and begin your meal, as if you were not going to have any tea at all. You must not even look round at it. Then you will soon hear it sputtering away, mad to be made into tea.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.