Quotes About Outcome

It may not seem that way, but sometimes, things work out for the best

There was no movie ending. There was only ending.

It's your life. Only you can choose what you make with it, whether it's chicken salad or chicken shit.

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Some people are like blisters----they show up after the work is done.

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, 'The 5th Wave,' explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

Fate will find a way.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

We cannot always shine and play to our very best, but as long as we win, it doesn't matter.

There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

Coach isn't the one playing. The players do that. The coach can only help with planning so if the team loses, I don't think the coach is not as accountable as we hold him as a nation.

A result doesn't determine the planning on the sporting side.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

I don't know what my record's going to be. I can't dictate it. I mean, obviously I have to pitch well, but it also takes the guys at the plate to show up as well.

You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

At the end of the day, it's my players play against their players, and the end of the day, that's what's important.

For us players, we just go into each game trying to win it and see where it takes us.

A lot of things change in the playoffs.