Quotes About Outcome

The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way

know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome

When you choose the behaviour, you choose the consequence.

From the point of view of high generalship those holding attacks had served their purpose pretty well. From the point of view of mother's sons they had been a bloody shambles without any gain. The point of view depends on the angle of vision.

We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

In fact, it was that which killed him, to his great surprise.

But events have consequences, and sometimes the effects of what we once did take a long time to become fully apparent.

Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.

What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.

It's about life, where the tiniest misstep can have tragic consequences." "Oh

I'll be curious to see how we all come out someday. It could be an interesting story. You're not so nice and polite in your fiction, he said. You're a different person.

Because there really are only two choices. We win and they lose – or else, they win and we lose." "There's a third possibility." "What?" he demanded aggressively. "We all lose.

Never wager against the success of mediocrity.

I have learned that we can live with a bad decision, but we are certain to be hurt by no decision.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

History judges you by your success or failure," he pontificated. "That's what counts. Nobody asks the victor whether he was in the right or wrong." Before

History judges you by your success or failure," he pontificated. "That's what counts. Nobody asks the victor whether he was in the right or wrong.

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You can choose how you want to live. You are free to choose the actions, but not the results. You are free to have your kicks, but not to avoid the kickbacks. You are free to make choices, but not to avoid the consequences.

We do not get what we hope for, we get what you expect.

It's up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

I am liking him enough to know that a different time and a different place might have led to a different outcome. But since I'm not planning on leaving this time or place anytime soon, it's not a point worth making.