Quotes About Outcome

A real coin flipped by a real human trended closer to 51-49 in favor of whichever side was uppermost at the outset.

People expect good luck to follow bad luck, or they worry that bad will follow good.

few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received

We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see. We in effect define degree of talent by degree of success and then reinforce our feelings of causality by noting the correlation.

So the relevant question is, if thousands of people are tossing coins once a year and have been doing so for decades, what are the chances that one of them, for some fifteen-year period, will toss all heads?

there remains the big picture, the question of how much randomness contributes to where we are in life and how well we can predict where we are

When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them.

By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over

What happened to the winner Adina asked. She tripped. And the first runner-up? Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. She tripped, too.

That was the trouble with wanting somebody else to take on making decisions—sometimes they did, and you ended up going to Nebraska.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.

No, my fatalism is yet not as primitive as that. It is rather the logical outcome of unfortunate experiences with the consistent application of intelligence.

Irresponsible is only irresponsible if you fail. Succeed, however; and irresponsible quickly becomes merely unorthodox.

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you, " says God.

Self Effort (Purushartha) is that which will bear fruits, without fail.

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us

Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.