Quotes About Outcome

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Hesitation was fatal. Choose.

Nobody enjoys accepting that they have reaped what they have sown.

A nadie le gusta aceptar que uno recoge lo que ha sembrado.

Under the government of Nature, what you call punishments and rewards are simply consequences. Nature does not punish. Nature does not reward. Nature has no purpose.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

What happens when the future has come and gone?

aftermath. The after mowth, which later came to be pronounced "aftermath," is the second or later mowing, the crop of grass that springs up after the first hay mowing in early summer when the grass is best for hay. This term was used as early as the 15th century, and within a century aftermath was being applied figuratively to anything that results or follows from an event.

We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.

There is all the difference in the world between knowing that a catastrophe is going to happen, and knowing that it has happened.

The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.

The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.

That's because time brings into play the Fiddle Theory, which states: The longer you fiddle around with a deal, the greater the odds that it will never close.

The way I always kind of look at it: everything's important and nothing's important. If you're gonna have a drama, have it over something that's worth the time. Some people take it more seriously than others, like a Lowell. But we all end up the same.

How well we transform ourselves from men living our lives under the power of Boy psychology to real men guided by the archetypes of Man psychology will have a decisive effect on the outcome of our present world situation.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

If you're lucky you live long enough to see the bad results of your good ideas.

No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?

Myself: But wasn't the decision a right one? Am I not here? What more could Feeling have achieved than was brought about by Reason?

you cannot pursue success; success ensues.