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Quotes About Results

Naturally, the significant results that legitimize a mathematical theory take time to derive, and then even more time to be fully accepted, and of course throughout this time the Insanity-v.-Genius question remains undecided, probably even for the mathematician himself, so that he's developing his theory and cooking his proofs under conditions of enormous personal stress and doubt, and sometimes isn't even vindicated in his own lifetime, etc.
~ David Foster Wallace
Mathematical thinking is abstract, but it's also thoroughly private-sector and results-oriented. The difference between a brilliant, revolutionary mathematical theory and a wacko one lies, therefore, in what-all can be done with it, in whether or not it yields significant results.
~ David Foster Wallace
Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.
~ William Shakespeare
But by bad courses may be understood that their events can never fall out good.
~ William Shakespeare
Uma boa relação de trabalho tende a facilitar a obtenção de bons resultados substantivos para ambos os lados. E bons resultados tendem a tornar ainda melhores bons relacionamentos.
~ William Ury
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
~ Winston Churchill
always followed, so far as I could see, the principle that military commanders should not be judged by results, but by the quality of their effort.
~ Winston S. Churchill
We are now somewhat readily accepting the proposition that high-explosive shells used in unprecedented and extraordinary quantities will achieve decisive results.
~ Winston S. Churchill
So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvres.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Los pendejos negocian discutiendo, quienes realmente quieren lo que quieren se callan el hocico y ponen manos a la obra.
~ Xavier Velasco
I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
~ Christopher Walken
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
~ Chuck Yeager
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
~ Cicero
I could see where I'd mistaken drama and conflict for life, which meant years of living reactively instead of generatively, a life I let be determined by circumstances and the choices of others. We like to think life happens to us, but pretty much everything in your life is there because you wanted it, even if unconsciously. Results, I have learned, don't lie.
~ Claire Fontaine
Accountability is not about blame, it's not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you've made, or are making, that create the results you have in your life. And you do create everything in your life.
~ Claire Fontaine
The cardinal work of charity is not by the number that counts, but by the frequency and the good results of the act.
~ Unknown
its author's enviable knack for assessing the significance of what everybody else had already seen and his congenital propensity for inflating the results into a speculative rigmarole that nobody else would ever think or could even follow.
~ Clive James
Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Los grandes resultados requieren grandes ambiciones" (Heráclito)
~ Unknown
Los buscadores de oro mucha tierra cavan y encuentran poco
~ Heraclitus
The other great error in advertising is to expect more out of advertising than there is in it.
~ Herbert Kaufman
The hunger angel approached everyone, without restraint. He knew that where things can be unloaded, other things can be loaded. In terms of mathematics, the results could be horrifying: if each person has his own hunger angel, then every time someone dies, a hunger angel is released.
~ Herta Muller
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
~ Heywood Broun
But the winter king, less occupied, will begin to think about his conscience. He will begin to think about his pride. He will begin to prepare the prizes for those who can deliver him results.
~ Hilary Mantel
There were no rules, only consequences.
~ Hilary McKay