Quotes About Outcome

She remembered studying Aristotle as a first-year Philosophy student. And being a bit depressed by his idea that excellence was never an accident. That excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives

The reason most of us fail to achieve real and sustainable change in our lives is because we focus too much on the desired outcome and not enough on the progress we are making.

We are afraid because we don't know how things are going to work out, but things are going to work out.

If you are uncertain, or lack evidence, about whether a particular outcome was caused by a preceding event, you are more likely to quickly associate them together," says Sang Wan Lee, a postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience at Caltech

What they don't realize is that sequels are bound to disappoint those who have waited for them.

The end must justify the means.

There are no advantageous defeats, but there can be disastrous victories.

When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame.

Nothing is made by men but makes, in the end, good ruins.

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Nem mindig rajtunk múlik, milyen véget érnek a dolgok.

Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie your own clever deeds! Skies have nothing whatsoever to do with your fate!

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

Everyone agreed that Lucian would ruin this.

A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so it would appear to me

Risk is the increased consequence of failure.

We don't 'see' odds – how likely the thing is – we 'see' consequences. That's what people would mean if they were to say 'picture the risk'. They mean picture the worst that can happen.

Effort means nothing. Execution is everything.

There's a quick and easy way to test whether an activity involves skill: ask whether you can lose on purpose.

In a probabilistic environment, you are better served by focusing on the process by which you make a decision than on the outcome