Quotes About Outcome

I think if you try to force a personality on a world then I think you're destined to fail.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.

Often in football a game is really balanced and one small detail will make the difference between winning and losing. We try to find the detail that makes the difference for us.

Sacks shouldn't be the only thing that determines if you had a good year.

You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.

Sometimes you hit the ball on target and sometimes you don't.

It's all fun and games when you're scoring goals but there will be a time when I'm not and I just have to try and keep doing the same things. Hit the target and, you know, see what happens at the end of the game.

Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.

A team needs leaders to drive it forward, but you never know how it will end.

You, as a manager, are judged on results and not on the work you do and the performance of the team. Imagine paying a guy a huge amount of money and then judging him not on the things he can control, but on those he can't.

At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.

When it is 1-0 and you have been dominant and you have restricted the home team to pretty much nothing, if you do not score the second goal then that is football. Any action can happen in the game.

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.

When I look at a season, and it's all said and done, and the thing I look for is, first off, did my team win?

I come in, I work hard, I do everything I can to help the team win and wherever the chips fall they fall.

Every game is decided by one or two plays that teams do or don't make; you've got to make them or else you lose.

Here goes nothing might have been an accurate statement, because nothing actually happened.

Once I was satisfied I knew it, I handed it to Adrian and shot him a hopeful look. "Wish me luck," I said. "You make your own luck," he replied.

MARKET GARDEN proved "an epic cock-up," as a British major averred, a poor plan with deficient intelligence, haphazard execution, and indifferent generalship

As required by the unwritten rules of military calamity, the initial attack went well.

Tis worth the experiment. Audaces fortuna juvat"—fortune favors the bold—though he tempted fortune by adding, "Should we fail I don't see any fatal consequences which are likely to attend it.

Now arrogance and error would reap the usual dividends

Blending always precedes redirecting, whether you're listening to understand or speaking to be understood. Only after establishing some rapport with your difficult people through blending will you be able to redirect the interaction and change the trajectory toward a worthwhile outcome.

On what will you be judged, the current difficulty, or the final result?