Quotes About Outcomes

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: you can win or you can lose or it can rain.

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best form, impact investing prioritizes impact over returns and achieves outcomes that traditional investing cannot.

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we'll get better results.

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

My success rate speaks for itself.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

We can't run this experiment a thousand times to see the range of different outcomes. We can only run it once. The human mind has trouble with situations like that. We see patterns where they don't exist, we find meaning in randomness.

You know, now, the decision I made. Which was to suffer for the greater good. Because society will go astray if there are not those who, like me, imagine many outcomes. Let those scenarios run rampant in their minds. Anticipate the worst that could happen. Take steps to prevent it. If the price of that—the price of having a head full of dark imaginings—is personal suffering, then so be it.

What then is the criterion that the mind uses to select an infinitesimal minority of possible outcomes to worry about?

don't count things, but instead count the ways things can happen.

It's all you have when you realize you are not entirely in control of outcomes. But without it, how else do we cope with the challenges of life?

Original Design.' The bell curve that we encountered in Chapter 3 represents the normal distribution, in which 68.2 per cent of outcomes are within one standard deviation (plus or minus) of the mean.

You can't say it's a fair way to determine right or wrong one day, and then say it's unfair the next because you don't like the outcome.

Los grandes acontecimientos tienen consecuencias incalculables

One of the hardest things about parenting is that you just never know what the outcome will be. It's a total leap of faith. Even with decisions you feel fairly confident about (say, what to make for lunch), you just can't be sure of the consequences they'll have for this person you're raising. Will you like the adult this kid—your kid—becomes?

Tu ne contrôles pas les choses qui arrivent, pire, tu n'es même pas capable de savoir si elles sont bonnes ou mauvaises.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are effects, and the energy of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance isn't. Gifts, powers, cloth, highbrow, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they're thoughts completed, items carried out, visions found out.

The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and purity of intention, they attract to their person solely positive outcomes. To