Quotes About Outcome

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

You will never regret having done so. But you may deeply regret not having done so.

Our ingress into the world was naked and bare; our progress through the world is trouble and care; our egress from the world will be nobody knows where; but if we do well here we shall do well there.

Who knows what brings fortune, since we cannot see the end?

The buzzards were neutral. No matter who won down there, they would win. They had but to wait.

Only men must do. It's in their nature to do, and much of what they've done is for the best, only sometimes they start doing before they understand that what they'll get won't be nearly as wonderful as what they had.

The solution has been to shift the totem of legitimacy from premises to procedures. We know an outcome is right not because it was derived from immutable principles, but because it was reached by following the correct procedures. Science became modern when it was conceived not as an empirical confirmation of truths derived from an independent source, divine revelation, but as simply whatever followed from the pursuit of scientific methods of inquiry.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

We would prefer having him to come here, but don't see how he could do it without exposing the whole thing.

he was betting the future of his firm on one roll of the dice.

If it is a failure, I will take the loss.

Something would happen or it wouldn't happen, and that was the way of it.

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

Anyone can be a cause of his or her own destruction, but no one can claim individual responsibility for having created a great good.

We've tried the other way; we've tried making both things and people It, and we've seen the results.

A ca?? t? spraw?, tak spokojnie i godnie poprowadzon?, minister uzna? za sukces, za? nasza prasa okre?li?a jako zwyci?stwo. Tak zawsze jako? minister kierowa?, ?e wszystko na sukces wychodzi?o i dobrze by?o, a bali?my si?, ?e gdyby ministra onego nie sta?o, wnet by sm?tkiem powia?o, co si? potem sprawdzi?o, kiedy nam go uby?o.

Muchas veces, pocas palabras fueron suficientes para hacer o deshacer la fortuna de un hombre

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

You can try and maybe fail, or not try and always fail

And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

some fortunate patients could enter the OO (or Optimal Outcome) group whose members no longer showed any of the symptoms of autistic disorder

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.