Quotes About Outcomes

The Boston Red Sox were obsessed with outcomes; he with process. That's what kept him sane.

Things went so well for him so often that no one ever needed to worry about how he behaved when they didn't go well.

The absence of definite information concerning the outcomes of actions one has not taken is probably the single most important factor that keeps regret in life within tolerable bounds," Danny wrote. "We can never be absolutely sure that we would have been happier had we chosen another profession or another spouse. . . . Thus, we are often protected from painful knowledge concerning the quality of our decisions.

It was not that he lacked values, but he had a keen sense that at times the ends justified the means, and an equally keen sense of his own interests. There

doctors don't think probabilities apply to their patients

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

if you wish to end up as a moderately advanced, thinking society, you need to be at the right end of a very long chain of outcomes involving reasonable periods of stability interspersed with just the right amount of stress and challenge (ice ages appear to be especially helpful in this regard) and marked by a total absence of real cataclysm. As

a lot of your life is shaped by the opportunities you turn down as much as those you take up.

you are what your record says you are

In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.

We then saw this same administration, desperate to reverse its falling poll numbers, continue to stoke the embers of class warfare. There is no more anti-American, anti-democracy rhetoric than this. To turn neighbor against neighbor because of the size of one's pocketbook is to plow the ground and sow it with the seeds of socialism. In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.

Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions lead to your results.

Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Actions lead to results.

your subconscious conditioning determines your thinking. Your thinking determines your decisions, and your decisions determine your actions, which eventually determine your outcomes. There

thinking determines your decisions, and your decisions determine your actions, which eventually determine your outcomes.

Expectation is the worst emotional disturbance. What will happen will happen, what won't happen, won't.

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.

Due to a combination of dispositional characteristics and personal performance histories, functional performers typically expect positive performance outcomes, and dysfunctional performers typically expect negative performance outcomes. Over time, these beliefs become strongly held and difficult to change. In addition, these belief sets can become self-fulfilling because they affect how the performer interprets challenge or threat in performance situations (Sbrocco & Barlow, 1996). For

The beauty of pragmatism is that it enables one to make judgements based on supposed consequences, which always lie in the future and are thus immediately unverifiable.

people don't buy two-inch drill bits; they buy two-inch holes.

There are so many ways to account for negative outcomes that it is safer to doubt one's methods before doubting one's subjects.

Equation to Fulfillment:Do: Actively focus on your desired outcomes, simply be aware of your problems and enjoy your living.Don't: Actively focus on your problems, simply be aware of your desired outcomes and worry about your living.