Quotes About Result

with all our feelings and action — our tears and our smiles, our joys and our griefs, our weeping and our laughter, our curses and our blessings, our praises and our blames — every one of these we may find, if we calmly study our own selves, to have been brought out from within ourselves by so many blows. The result is what we are. All these blows taken together are called Karma — work, action.

Through a shared aim, shared needs, shared love of a shared result in theatre, from the creation of space... the coming-together of an endlessly repeated climax of shared performance, again and again, something special can appear.

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.

And in the end... Not even that old familiar sensation of emptiness. Just a hint of helplessness, a frustration for a lost time from a result prematurely injured and failed.

A man's action always takes it's result along.

Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

It is much easier to sell "Look what I did for you" than "Look what I avoided for you.

For if you think that education causes wealth, rather than being a result of wealth, or that intelligent actions and discoveries are the result of intelligent ideas, you will be in for a surprise. Let us see what kind of surprise.

Our brain is not cut out for nonlinearities. People think that if, say, two variables are causally linked, then a steady input in one variable should always yield a result in the other one. Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For

But top management is only paid on result—no matter the process.

the decision maker focuses on the payoff, the consequence of the actions (hence includes asymmetries and nonlinear effects).

When constrained systems, those hungry for natural disorder, collapse, as they are eventually bound to, since they are fragile, failure is never seen as the result of fragility. Rather, such failure is interpreted as the product of poor forecasting.

It's much easier to sell "Look what I did for you" than "Look what I avoided for you.

So what counts is the payoff from success.

every search has incrementally a higher probability of yielding a result

Tales tinha o direito — mas não a obrigação — de usar as prensas caso houvesse um súbito aumento na demanda; a outra parte tinha a obrigação, mas não o direito. Tales pagou um preço pequeno por esse privilégio, com uma perda limitada e um grande resultado possível. É a primeira opção de que se tem registro. A opção é um agente da antifragilidade.

How frequent the profit is irrelevant; it is the magnitude of the outcome that counts.

By the mechanism of retrospective determinism we will find the "cause"—actually

The payoff, what happens to you (the benefits or harm from it), is always the most important thing, not the event itself.

you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other.

the mistake may turn out to be inconsequential. Or

But since abundance would bring the opposite effect