Quotes About Outcome

All relationships are teleological.

hostages to fortune.

Puedes equivocarte de camino y que aun así este te lleve a donde quieres ir. O, viceversa, a veces puedes hacerlo todo mal y aun así sale bien.

Perché se è vero che il male può discendere dalle buone azioni… dove sta scritto che da quelle cattive può venire solo il male? Magari a volte – il modo sbagliato è quello giusto? Magari prendi la strada sbagliata e ti porta comunque dove volevi? O vedila in un altro modo, certe volte puoi sbagliare tutto, e alla fine viene fuori che andava bene?

Maybe sometimes—the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.

You're the total of all the choices you've made in your life, Jack. This is what you have because this is what you chose.

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harder than ever, you may kill your chances for success.

Luck is the residue of preparation,

Failure Is Not Predictive

And if it doesn't go like that? – Then all your problems will be over and you won't have a thing to worry.

if you set up a goal which will lead to an outcome that isn't final at all. We can return to our friend Fred for one example. Let's suppose he enters the bank, wanting his loan, but we take note of the fact that there are five banks in town, and this is just the first one. Now after he is turned down, the disaster isn't final at all; it's just a momentary setback, and he has four more banks to try.

deep regret, "none of this would ever have happened.

Readers know full well that when a writer takes pains to tell them a character doesn't expect the worst, she's about to get it.

Visions are possibilities. Actions are the only thing able to determine our futures.

people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.

She was expected to recover, but the prognosis was uncertain as to whether she might have

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

it seems like a disaster, but somehow it all comes together at the last minute, and you make it through.

Whether thoughts and ideas manifest in a material outcome depends on our transmission of them into perceived reality.

The joy of trials is rarely found in the circumstances of our difficulties. Rather, it is found when we stop fighting against what God is doing and seek his purposes and priorities, which always without exception are designed for our welfare. Whatever the difficulty—even one brought about by our sin—we can leave the outcome in God's hands (p. 76).

The logical outcome of the Pro-Slavery party was the Southern Confederacy; the logical outcome of the Anti-Slavery party was the Republican party; the logical outcome of the conflict between the two was the Civil War.