Quotes About Outcome

Often in business we take decisions based on how we interpret the situation, not being sure of whether the call we have taken will work or not. When it works, we are often taken by surprise. But the world at large demands an explanation.

Every event in our life is determined by past actions.

Everyone looks at the karta for a decision despite data being unreliable, the future being uncertain, and outcomes that are unpredictable. Not everyone can do it. He who is able to make decisions independently is the karta. He who allows others to do so is the yajaman.

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

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater.

done for the last few days has been completely wrong, even though you did it with the best of intentions. This is the risk you agreed to take. There are always consequences." "Can I leave the baby with you?" she asked.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

Those who rush up a peak without a plan often end up in the valley below - as food for vultures.

You should never feel bad over an outcome whose conclusion was foretold.

Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.

Our lives have no outcome other than death, just as rivers have no end other than the ocean. At the moment of death, our only recourse is spiritual practice, and our only friends the virtuous actions we have accomplished during our lifetime.

the future doesn't care what you wish.

The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.

When you lose you lose forever, an when you win it only lasts a second or two.

A Cavalier Parliament, watched over by the king's brothers and his parliamentary contacts, had drawn up the list of those to be tried. Charles's placemen had done their jobs in other ways, too; the highest lawyers in the land, all royal appointees, had designed the trials in such a way that there could only be one possible outcome. Yet

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Crime 101: Getting out one job too early puts you on the beach. Getting out one job too late puts you in a cell.

would have' is just another way of saying 'didn't.

a whole lot of ideas isn't a plan. A plan is a bunch of details that mesh with one another, so you go from this step to this step like crossing a stream on a lot of little boulders sticking out, and never fall in. Ideas without a plan is usually just enough boulders to get you into the deep part of the stream, and no way to get back.

When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.