Quotes About Outcome

Documentation is never an end in itself; it is only a means to an end. Creating documentation for its own sake is not merely a waste of time—it can be counterproductive and demoralizing.

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

One always expects something else.

What is leave? – a pause that only makes everything after it so much worse.

Postoji jedna tajna koja se ne zna unapred: uvek se dobija više nego što se daje - ali kad bi se to znalo unapred, ne bi se dobilo ništa.

Svršetak može biti dobar samo ako je pre njega bilo loše. Tada je loš svršetak povoljniji.

The outcome was clear to Dodd well before the votes were counted. He wrote to Roosevelt, "The election here is a farce." Nothing indicated this more clearly than the vote within the camp at Dachau: 2,154 of 2,242 prisoners—96 percent—voted in favor of Hitler's government. On

It was the judgment of a skilled and experienced man, and although others might have acted differently and perhaps more successfully he ought not, in my opinion, to be blamed." Mersey found Cunard's

The ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO You'll be one. Everybody gets what they want. That's what they always tell me.

How did you go bankrupt? Bill asked. Two ways, Mike said. Gradually and then suddenly.

You are aware of the result, not the process.

In the business world I had been used to "making things happen" and focusing on results. I was continually pushing or pulling the outcomes of events and circumstances rather than focusing my highest intention and then allowing the optimum outcome to unfold.

Debemos disparar la flecha y reconocer que hay cosas que están fuera de nuestro control, y debemos golpear la flecha y aceptar responsabilidad por lo que sí está en nuestro control. Debemos disparar y golpear, pero lo que no debemos hacer es detenernos.

Ordinary effort, ordinary result. ... Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer.

Lo que cuenta no es dónde empiezas, sino dónde decides terminar.

This is the usual way in which the State Department, without taking the least responsibility for the outcome, makes comments of an entirely unhelpful character in a spirit of complete detachment.'82

Sometimes, what looks like bad luck may turn out to be good luck and vice versa

If you only understand one thing about building products, you must understand that energy put in early in the process pays off tenfold and energy put in at the end of the program pays off negative tenfold.

one person usually has more at stake in the outcome of the meeting than others. In fact, it is usually the chairman or the de facto chairman who calls the meeting, and most of what he contributes should occur before it begins. All too often he shows up as if he were just another attendee and hopes that things will develop as he wants. When a mission-oriented meeting fails to accomplish the purpose for which it was called, the blame belongs to the chairman

In other words, the output of the planning process is the decisions made and the actions taken as a result of the process.

You do not dice with Destiny with impunity!

Almost every result that your life produces from this moment forward — good or bad — will depend upon how you choose.