Quotes About Outcome

It doesn't so much matter where we end up as how we got there. What has happened in the recent past drives our emotional response much more than how we are doing overall. That's how we can win $100 and be sad, and lose $100 and be happy.

Resulting is the tendency to look at whether a result was good or bad to figure out whether a decision was good or bad.

there are only two things that determine how your life turns out: luck and the quality of your decisions. You have control over only one of those two things.

there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck.

In the short-term, for any single decision, there is only a loose relationship between the quality of the decision and the quality of the outcome. The two are correlated, but the relationship can take a long time to play out.

You can't tell that much about the quality of a decision from a single outcome, because of luck. When you make a decision, you can rarely guarantee a good outcome (or a bad one). Instead, the goal is to try to choose the option that will lead to the most favorable range of outcomes.

As with all the strategies in this book, we must recognize that no strategy can turn us into perfectly rational actors. In addition, we can make the best possible decisions and still not get the result we want.

Hindsight bias adds to the ruckus caused by knowing the outcome, distorting your memory of what you knew at the time of the decision in two ways: You did know what was going to happen—swapping out your actual view at the time of the decision with a faulty memory of that view to conform to your postoutcome knowledge. You should (or could) have known what was going to happen—to the point of predictability or inevitability.

Thinking in bets starts with recognizing that there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck.

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.

If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.

Given that the reality of Brexit has turned out to be so far from what was once promised, the democratic thing to do is to give the public the final say.

When you're making a movie, you don't think about the outcome. That's something I'm grateful for: whenever I go and do a new project, I never think about the outcome. It's always just about the work at hand. That's the fun part. The other part is always something I've had a struggle with, which is promoting the film. I know it's important.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

With a lot of projects, you never know if it's going to be executed properly. And also, you never know if people are going to respond to it.

It's not an excuse, but I'd say I didn't perform well in the big fights because I wasn't prepared properly.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.

A match against Pakistan is never an easy prospect - especially for goalkeepers in a penalty shootout. We can either become heroes or zeroes.

I had that mindset that I feel that I am the best prospect in the draft, but everything happens for a reason.