Quotes About Outcome

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

How could that be what America chose?

Somehow it all works out.

What happens to you happens from you.

The vision you use determines the results you obtain.

I never answer that question until after I've done it.

One of three things would occur when she thumbed it, she knew: They would lift off, the ship would blow up, or nothing at all would happen.

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Rorschach: You know we can't let you do that Adrian Veidt: Do? Do what Rorschach? I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago.

Plan for success; prepare for failure. And the universe doesn't care either way.

As a law graduate, this allowing of intention to trump outcome rings alarm bells for me. Imagine if while driving your car, intending to bring a friend to the hospital as quickly as possible, you hit and killed a child. You would not expect to tell that story to friends and have them respond, 'Great, so good of you to get your friend some help. Well done – and no matter about the child, you didn't mean to kill it.

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.

Action focussed on intent is better than action focussed on outcome.

Dharma is more about empathy than ethics, about intent rather than outcome. I follow dharma when I am concerned about your material, emotional or intellectual hunger. I follow adharma when I focus on my hunger at the cost of yours.

Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome

Dharma is more about empathy than ethics, about intent rather than outcome.

Arjuna, fair or unfair, the results of any action depend on five things: the body, the mind, the instruments, the method and divine grace (luck? fate?). Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for any outcome.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 13 to 16 (paraphrased).

Dharma is more about empathy than ethics, about intent rather than outcome. I

To do yagna is to recognize that we live in a sea of assumed expectations and obligations. You and I can hoard, grab, give in order to get, get before giving or simply withdraw from the exchange. We can act out of desire, duty or care. We can choose to expect or control outcome, or not.

They realized neither the war nor the victory was their own creation. Both were products of destiny. The

no decision is right or wrong. Decisions can be beneficial or harmful, in the short-term or long-term, to oneself or to others. Essentially, every decision has a consequence, no matter which rule is upheld and which one is ignored. This law of consequence is known as karma.

But we cannot blame anyone for our misfortunes, as all calamities are an outcome of our past deeds. We have to take responsibility for all the good that happens to us and all the bad. We are the cause, and we have to face the consequences. This is the law of karma.