Quotes About Outcomes

At the most basic level, competition in health care must take place where value is actually created.

Competition on value must revolve around results. The results that matter are patient outcomes per unit of cost at the medical condition level.

Groupthink is the term Irving Janis coined for this phenomenon: the kind of flawed group dynamics that lets bad ideas go unchallenged by questions and disagreement and that can sometimes yield disastrous outcomes.

The location of an activity on the continuum provides guidance on how much reversion to the mean is necessary in making your predictions. High correlations imply limited reversion to the mean; the best estimate for the next outcome is something close to the previous one. Low correlations require substantial reversion to the mean, and the most logical guess for the next outcome is the average. Psychologists have demonstrated that we typically fail to regress to the mean as much as we should.

The Bell Curve might have been called Why Intelligence Matters, explaining the connection of intelligence to life outcomes; this book completes the syllogism.

The law of intended consequences," she said. "That's what I call it anyway. When you look for what you expect to find, invariably you'll find it.

random outcomes of contingent fate in an arbitrary and uncaring universe.

Donald Trump may have done any number of things that, given good sense and the letter of the law, he should not have done. But with his short attention span, inability to manage multiple variables, exclusive focus on his own immediate needs, and general disregard of all future outcomes, the notion of pinning a grand conspiracy on him seemed like a big stretch.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

People don't write their own endings," he said.

Great planners have discovered that anything is possible, whether you plan your own ruin or succeed.

The wise man always put more energy in his cause than the expected outcomes and I hope that, you will follow the same path advised by our ancestors.

We can't force anyone to give out to charity or predict how much we can gain from a charitable organisation.

The taxonomy of medical error is vast, colorful, and at times confusing. There are slips, lapses, harmless hits, and near misses; errors of omission and of commission; operator errors, system errors, accidents, complications, and bad outcomes.

Another way the Stoics counsel us to adapt to the uncertainty of outcomes is through an analogy with archery. In shooting an arrow, the "objective" is to hit the target, but the "goal" or "end" "is to do all in one's power to shoot straight," "to do all one can to accomplish the task.

Tactical catastrophes are rarely the outcome of a single poor decision. Small compromises incrementally close off options until a commander is forced into actions he would never choose freely.

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us.

Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then it's over.

All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

The fear of bad outcomes motivates both climate activists and their foes, but the precise details don't matter. Both sides see themselves as averting a future that they don't like more than creating one that they do.

the distentions we make indicates our future so make, good choices

While the churches that focus on one locale and stay focused may report good outcomes, other churches may simply repeat the mistakes of North American missionaries of the past.