Quotes About Outcomes

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

We make our own fate," Jet said, and then all at once she realized that they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

Fate was what you made of it. You could make the best of it, or it would make the best of you.

Promises didn't mean much...Anything could happen when all was said and done.

There was the very slightest pause. Probably no more than a breath, for all it felt far longer. While everyone assessed the odds and the outcomes. While everyone judged just where the shifting power sat. While everything dropped into place in Dimbik's mind and, no doubt, the minds of every other person present. Just a breath, and everything was rearranged.

The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth… is a hard sell.

After carefully analyzing all the options, Facebook's scientists concluded there was one solution: they said Facebook would have to abandon its current business model. Because their growth was so tied up with toxic outcomes, the company should abandon attempts at growth. The only way out was for the company to adopt a strategy that was "anti-growth"—deliberately shrink, and choose to be a less wealthy company that wasn't wrecking the world.

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example.

However, these past theorists and researchers instead proposed that feelings of personal responsibility for aversive outcomes were necessary to produce dissonance effects.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.

Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.

I am committed to improving public safety outcomes from our state's juvenile justice system.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

If we go out there, and we play well and win football games, all the good stuff will come with it. It's not my job to worry about something I can't control.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.