Quotes About Outcome

It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

I am not at all the sort of girl he would normally go out with. But maybe now there is not so much choice—well, anyway. We shall see.

quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

Either do it or don't do it. You'll regret it either way

your thoughts don't change, your results won't change.

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." —Charles Reade

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

At the end of the day, your job is to minimize output, and maximize outcome and impact.

Your job isn't to build more software faster: it's to maximize the outcome and impact you get from what you choose to build.

Use slices to identify all the tasks and details relevant to a specific outcome.

Focus on what you hope will happen outside the system to make decisions about what's inside the system.

The clean language and distinction between output and outcome was first made clear to me in a talk by Robert Fabricant called "Behavior Is Our Medium".

The goal of using stories isn't to write better stories. The goal of product development isn't to make products.

Minimize output, and maximize outcome and impact.

Focusing on specific target outcomes is the secret to prioritizing development work.

Ese día mi suerte quedó echada.

It isn't the problems that determine our destiny. It's how we respond.

More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked

Some things come true. They might come true in ways different than we might have predicted, but some things do come true

YOU COULD LIVE ONE day in your life over again and change the outcome of something that happened that day, what day would it be? This is a question many people have difficulty answering. Not Iris Winters. She knows the day, and she knows exactly how she'd change what happened.

That's the thing about a human life-there's no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)