Quotes About Outcome

Don't mistake activity for achievement," John Wooden

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

I was comfortable about my own western quest. The wrong outcome, or no outcome at all, is often the only result of a journey. Walkabouts and odysseys have always been common, and we needn't search too hard for tangible returns. Journey for journey's sake is enough. For weeks or months of a climb or a trek, we are forced to be in the moment.

But even Cammaerts' luck ran out eventually, proving

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.

The news was somewhere between an incredible accomplishment and a huge disaster.

Power without foresight leads to disaster.

Consciously or unconsciously, you always get what you expect.

It's just that smart people are prone to look into matters to see how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

Create expectations to fulfil them.

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

He ventured neck or nothing—heaven's successFound, or earth's failure.

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

This is the world of the software development team. It's a world in which dates are frozen and requirements are continuously changing. And somehow in that context, the development team must drive the project to a good outcome.

But if she could give the same test to humanity as a whole, Sandra thought, the outcome would be very much in doubt. Subject is confused and often self-destructive. Subject pursues short-term gratification at the expense of his own well-being.

What does it matter if another player, your friend or rival, intended good things and had only your interests at heart, if the effects of his action lead to so much ruin and confusion?

Results are important, but the way they are achieved, the process, is equally important.

Cuanto menos intentemos, menos riesgo tendremos de fracasar.