Quotes About Outcome

Women are more likely than men to experience negative emotions after a hookup. Men are more likely to regret when the woman they hooked up with wants a more serious relationship. Men report that their ideal outcome of a hookup would be more hookups in the future. Women are more likely to report that their ideal outcome would be a romantic relationship. Following hookups, women are more likely than men to report feeling "used" and experiencing depressed mood.42

Over the last decade "shareholder" has been replaced by "stakeholder." I will remind my readers that a stakeholder is an onlooker to a gambling event. The contenders in the wager trust the stakeholder to hold their respective bets (the stakes) and at the contest's conclusion to award them to the winner. The stakeholder is one who, by definition, can have neither interest nor profit in the outcome. I believe no further comment is required.

Good luck will be the residue of good design.

Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.' (John Cage)

But his only alternatives were to play for the possibility, however remote, that he could pull one of them off or else to simply surrender everything he'd spent the last forty-six T-months trying to achieve. He couldn't do that. Even running the very real risk of slipping back over into a brief, bloody clash with the Republic was better than that.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

You just have to be your best and no matter what, do what you can do and affect the things that you can control. And from there, let the dominoes fall where they may and see where you end up.

I don't get affected whether a film does well or it doesn't. But you do want your films to do well as you put in a lot of hard work.

I'm just trying to focus on playing my game and playing well, and whatever happens afterwards, we'll see.

I'm aggressive. Sometimes that plays to my benefit, and sometimes it doesn't.

The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.

I try not to analyze things too much. I just do them and hope it works out.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

Anytime you lose, nothing really matters except winning.

What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.

A life was owned by the person who lived it, he believed. What happened didn't always happen because you wanted it to, but what you made of it was your responsibility.

The correctness of a decision can't be judged from the outcome. Nevertheless, that's how people assess it. A good decision is one that's optimal at the time it's made, when the future is by definition unknown. Thus, correct decisions are often unsuccessful, and vice versa.

What is done is done; and the egg cracked cannot be cured.

Life doesn't give you what you want; it gives you a version of what you can have. March 18, 2022 'The Empirical Observations of Algernon' (vol. II)

There is NO such thing as an Ergonomic (device) anything. I could give the best Ergonomic tool / device in the world and if you use it wrong, you will probably get worse.

Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. "The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

El fruto de la timidez no es ni ganancia ni pérdida.