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Quotes About Result

Lofty designs must close in like effects.
~ Robert Browning
These developments were not due to a conspiracy among the rich nor simply to colonialism (although it played a role). They were the result of one of the fundamental principles of economics – comparative advantage.
~ Robert C. Allen
Most human restlessness and pain is the result of the Spirit's incessant demand that humans live from the deepest part of their being.
~ Robert J. Grant
The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.
~ Robert Jordan
as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
E de facto bem pode dizer-se que as ideias inesperadas nos vêm porque estávamos à espera delas. São, em grande parte, o resultado conseguido de um carácter, de certas inclinações constantes, de uma ambição tenaz, de uma incessante ocupação com elas. Que tédio, uma perseverança assim!
~ Robert Musil
Ich bin Mitglied einer ministeriellen Konferenz. Bei einer Konferenz bringt jeder vor, was er haben möchte und für das Richtige hält, und zum Schluß ergibt sich etwas daraus, das keiner ganz gewollt hat: eben das Ergebnis.
~ Robert Musil
To think about fairness, think of economic life as a game - a serious game. All ideas about fairness can be divided into two broad groups. They are: - It isn't fair if the result isn't fair. - It isn't fair if the rules aren't fair.
~ Robert S. Pindyck
Anyhow, we've decided on the experiment and goodness only knows what will come of it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The hammer has fallen.
~ Larry Niven
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.
~ Imre Lakatos
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
~ Ambrose Bierce
We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Something about this place screams denouement.
~ Adrian McKinty
considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological flatulence:
~ Alain de Botton
This idea that sickness was the result of tiny, nearly invisible creatures swarming in the blood would have seemed ridiculous but for the fact that Dr. Mouritz had once shown her, under a microscope, the pink, tube-shaped "bacteria" discovered to be the cause of leprosy by the Norwegian scientist Gerhard Hansen.
~ Alan Brennert
Action focussed on intent is better than action focussed on outcome.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Thus, no decision is right or wrong. Decisions can be beneficial or harmful, in the short-term or long-term, to oneself or to others. Essentially, every decision has a consequence, no matter which rule is upheld and which one is ignored. This law of consequence is known as karma.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Action focused on intent is better than action focused on outcome.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater.
~ Diane Chamberlain
When we seek for security in possessions we are trying to drive out care with care, and the net result is the precise opposite of our anticipations. The fetters which bind us to our possessions prove to be cares themselves.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.
~ Dizzy Dean
The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.
~ Don Cousins