Quotes About Outcome

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli

I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.

Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Then, a life was ending. Here, one was about to begin. I didn't believe in signs. But it was hard to ignore the fact that someone, somewhere, might have wanted me to go through this again and see there was another outcome.

Our model ships look perfect in their bottles, but we do not know if they are seaworthy. Sometimes the one that reaches your harbor has already been through the storm.

Tko traži sre?u - morao bi biti spreman na loš ishod.

Looking for happiness - ought to be prepared for bad results.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Man proposes and God disposes.

I sometimes describe this situation in a more generic sense as having a system instead of a goal. A goal is, by definition, one way to win and infinite ways to lose. A good system gives you lots of ways to win and far fewer ways to fail.

The popular interpretation of how Trump won is that he understood the American people and devised policies that they wanted. My filter says the opposite. It says Trump convinced the public that his policies were the ones they should care about the most. And so they did. Obviously every voter is different, and one variable doesn't explain an election. But my point is that persuasion was more important to the outcome than policies; we just perceive it to be the other way around.

Success isn't magic; it's generally the product of picking a good system and following it until luck finds you.

teleological systems are systems that are based on the end result produced by an action.

It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do wel..

Aunque el mosto fermente de manera impredecible, al final tendrá que dar vino.

Il destino esaudisce i nostri desideri, ma a modo suo, per poterci dare qualcosa che va al di là dei nostri desideri.

Attitudes change once the die is cast

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading…

What you intend and what you do not intend have smaller import than you might suspect. The question is not what you shall do with life but what life shall do with you.