Quotes About Outcome

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

We usually get what we anticipate.

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome.

In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.