Quotes About Outcome

Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

every action has a result.

It's up to you how the law of karma all works out.

One resents being axed from the narrative, apart from anything else. I'd have liked to know the outcome.

problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.

In philosophical discussions of decision-making, an action is said to be instrumentally rational if it is a good way of achieving the goal that the agent is pursuing, whatever that goal might be. When assessing actions according to their instrumental rationality, we do not worry about where the goals come from or whether they are appropriate goals. We just ask whether the action is likely to achieve the outcome that the agent desires.

Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

The result of change cannot actually exist before the change.

The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome and the linkage between effect and cause is hidden from us.

We could turn this assertion around and state that a decision should involve the strength of our desire for a particular outcome as well as the degree of our belief about the probability of that outcome.

Ultimately it is not the stock market nor even the companies themselves that determine an investor's fate. It is the investor.

What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

Traditional police wisdom has it that if a case doesn't yield leads in the first twenty-four hours, then everyone is in for a long, tough haul.

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Fortunately there is no need to pin the case for equality to one particular outcome of a scientific investigation.