Quotes About Outcome

A draw is the lesser of two evils. A loss or a draw, then obviously we are going to take the draw.

It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

If you make your own luck then I don't seem to be very good at it.

I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

I've always maintained that winning and losing will be part of the sport.

Even if the team is not doing well and I can still pop up with a goal or an assist, then I'm making a difference.

All managers make decisions, and sometimes they are right, and sometimes people say they are wrong.

Football is decided on fine margins.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

to come to power. Now it must be said that when a major political party basically rejects the outcome of a free election, we are in uncharted territory. This happened in the United States once before, of course, in 1860, when the same party, the Democrats, refused to accept the election of Abraham Lincoln. The result was a bloody civil war.

Now it must be said that when a major political party basically rejects the outcome of a free election, we are in uncharted territory. This happened in the United States once before, of course, in 1860, when the same party, the Democrats, refused to accept the election of Abraham Lincoln. The result was a bloody civil war.

What appears good in principle can sometimes fail when introduced to the world. Sometimes, bad products succeed and good products fail. The world is complex.

Customers are not interested in your story. They are, rather, interested in being invited into a story that has them surviving and winning in the end.

To do this, we must define the stakes. What's at stake in the customer's story if they do or do not choose to do business with us? If we've not defined the stakes, we've not made the story interesting.

What's at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares. Will the hero disarm the bomb, or will people be killed? Will the guy get the girl, or will he be lonely and filled with self-doubt? These are the kinds of questions in the minds of a story-hungry audience.

Often, the solution can simply be the product itself. These are great examples:

Step 3: Result

There needs to be a question as to whether the character will make it, whether he will defeat the enemy or the enemy will defeat him.

1.?What does the hero want? 2.?Who or what is opposing the hero getting what she wants? 3.?What will the hero's life look like if she does (or does not) get what she wants?

Section 2: The Stakes

Life is a game of statistics. There are no guarantees, but the more positive effort you put in, the more likely you will be to win.

Stories live and die on a single question: What's at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares.

Who is your customer? What is their problem? What is your plan to help them, and what will their life look like after you do?