Quotes About Outcomes

It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.

A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.

Regardless of the administration or who's in Congress, when you look at the outcomes of what what's been happening, there are opportunities for us to invest in infrastructure, to create more equity, to invest in new technologies, to create future - jobs focused on the future not industries from the past.

We can't always control the outcomes, but we can control what we do.

That story had at its core a discussion of my fundamental view that nothing in life is certain and that, consequently, all decisions are about probabilities.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

The defining characteristics of modern liberalism are radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than of opportunities) and radical individualism (the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification).

Psychologist Susan Fiske observes, 'Attention is directed up the hierarchy. Secretaries know more about their bosses than vice versa; graduate students know more about their advisors than vice versa.' Fiske explains this happens because, like our fellow primates, 'people pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power.

with better awareness you can make better choices and when you make better choices, you will see better results.

All happy endings are the same, but every unhappy ending is unhappy in its own way.

It is dangerous to judge ability by short-term results.

We cannot see a person's potential, only his or her results, so we often misjudge people by thinking that the results must reflect the person.

the same mathematics that describes drawing pebbles from an urn can be employed to describe any series of trials in which each trial has two possible outcomes, as long as those outcomes are random and the trials are independent of each other.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Make a list of what you know, what you don't know, and what you'd like to know. Make a list of possible outcomes. Choose the outcome you think is best, then go for that!

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

When problems arise, a good question to ask yourself is "What am I hoping to get out of this situation?

My father let me think about this and then asked me what I'd do the next time a test came around. How would I prepare for it? It occurred to me that if I knew I really couldn't earn an A, what was the point of killing myself? I told my father, and he agreed. In fact, he told me that soon the entire class would be getting Cs, and then Ds. And eventually Fs. Socialism at work.

measure what matters, make better decisions.

Finally, even random differences in opportunities that arise early in one's career can accumulate, via the Matthew Effect, to generate large differences in outcomes over the course of a lifetime. Rawls's claim was that because the mechanisms of inequality are essentially accidents—whether of birth, or of talent, or of opportunity—a just society is one in which the adverse effects of these accidents is minimized.

The problem, in fact, is not that there is anything wrong with evaluating processes in terms of outcomes—just that it is unreliable to evaluate them in terms of any single outcome.

What we call results are beginnings.