Quotes About Outcome

The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

The direction you are currently traveling—relationally, financially, spiritually, and the list goes on and on—will determine where you end up in each of those respective arenas.

Direction—not intention—determines our destination.

Everything somehow works out. Every decision has an outcome, and every path has a destination.

I always end up where the road I've chosen takes me.

Actually, there was nothing sudden about his undoing. His fall was inevitable. The end of this story was determined years ago when he chose a path that, from the very beginning, had dishonor, disgrace, and dismissal as the destination. Direction determines destination. Every time.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

The stakes—what your protagonist is risking—should increase in significance as the story progresses.

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

Not everyone is born to fulfill an heroic role. The only realistic ambition is to live in the present. And sometimes, quite often in fact, this is more than enough to keep one busy. Time, which was once squandered, must now be given over to the actual, the possible, and perhaps that evanescent hope of a good outcome which never deserts one, and which should never be abandoned.

So what if you have two points? As long as we win, what does it matter? What if you don't have no points?

One day, I just ended up thinking, 'You know what? If we get to 13-0, it's not me. If we go 10-2, it's not me.'

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens.

My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out.

We've seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done to achieve a desirable result, then the wheels fall off.

Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

With poker, you have a resolution of the hand within a couple of minutes. Whereas, even if the thought process in investing is very much the same, you're looking at an outcome that could be 2, 3, 4, 5 years from when you make the original decision. And the mindset related to that is very different.

170 is not a popularity contest. 170 is a working man's weight class where you work hard, you get your rewards whereas at lightweight, it wasn't the same. You could work as hard as you want, win as many fights as you want, and there's no promise what you're going to get out of it.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.