Quotes About Outcome

If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn't it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted?

A body makes his own luck, be it good or bad.

Doing nothing," Inez said, "is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something.

Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end.

Cada uno hablará de la feria según le haya ido a su mercancía.

Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain't no De Mille epic either, boss. Things'll work out, Bernie.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps: 1. One decides the objective. 2. One considers the method. 3. One evaluates the method in relation to the objective.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

race—but over the course of the year, as the uncertainty grows, his odds of mishap increase.

Plant the seed whose vine or tree may hang you.

if he conquers, he obtains power and good fortune. If he perishes, he obtains paradise and bliss.' The outcome of the battle therefore did not matter much to him.

All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.

All I can do is the best I can do. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Something about this place screams denouement.