Quotes About Outcome

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it, while claiming that the decision would not be precedent for any future cases.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.

I hate it, but a popout is the same as a strikeout. It's a matter of productive at-bats, a matter of how you do it.

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.

It's disappointing when you put in hard work in a film and it doesn't work.

There's little in life so disappointing as a sunken cake.

It's disappointing when you put in a lot of hard work and it doesn't really pay off the way that you want it to.

Most sequels are generally disappointments.

When I take risks, I win. When I do the safe thing, it's a disaster.

Obviously, it's my goal to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga, but it wouldn't be a disaster if I didn't achieve that.

Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Whether my film becomes commercially successful or not, only God can tell, or the box-office numbers. So why worry about it and get distracted?

Whenever I've done anything where I feel like, 'Oh, it would be smart to do that,' it's always been a mistake. Whenever I do the 'Oh, it would be fun to do that,' it's always paid dividends.

I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.