Quotes About Outcome

Just try to understand that sometimes it is better to see a thing destroyed, rather than ruined.

When you make an absolute statement, you assume a sense of personal integrity based on a pretense of moral objectivity, which exists only as a faulty heuristic to arrive at an easy conclusion, and deny yourself the responsibility of choice - it's more convenient not to acknowledge your freedom and settle for a less desirable outcome on the grounds that you had no choice, rather than risk acquiring the less desirable outcome by your own will, regardless of the possibility for a better one.

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

Creeping determinism means that we pay less attention than we should to the things that don't happen.

To be sure that we are not just falling for the Halo Effect, we really need a different measure of performance altogether—one that assesses individual skill directly rather than by inferring it from outcomes that might be determined by forces beyond the individual's control.

Predicting black swans, in other words, requires us not only to see the future outcome about which we're making a prediction but also to see the future beyond that outcome, because only then will its importance be known.

Only once this story has been completed and agreed upon can we say what the relevant events were, or which were the most important. Thus it follows that predicting the importance of events requires predicting not just the events themselves but also the outcome of the social process that makes sense of them.

The reason is simply that when influence is spread via some contagious process, the outcome depends far more on the overall structure of the network than on the properties of the individuals who trigger it.

Thus, in effect, all we are really saying is that "X happened because that's what people wanted; and we know that X is what they wanted because X is what happened.

In reality, the events that we label as outcomes are never really endpoints. Instead, they are artificially imposed milestones, just as the ending of a movie is really an artificial end to what in reality would be an ongoing story. And depending on where we choose to impose an "end" to a process, we may infer very different lessons from the outcome.

The Halo Effect, in other words, turns conventional wisdom about performance on its head. Rather than the evaluation of the outcome being determined by the quality of the process that led to it, it is the observed nature of the outcome that determines how we evaluate the process.6

Life is to blame for everything.

Life never gives you what you deserve but what you decided.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.

Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

In life, you don't get what you deserve; you get what you believe, plan, and expect.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.