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Quotes About Results

The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad scriptwriter. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
In a community coursed through by energies every road leads to a worthwhile goal, provided one doesn't hesitate or reflect too long. Targets are short-term, but since life is short too, results are maximized, which is all people need to be happy, because the soul is formed by what you accomplish, whereas what you desire without achieving it merely warps the soul. Happiness depends very little on what we want, but only on achieving whatever it is.
~ Robert Musil
is more process- than results-oriented. We haven't seen the ability to pull through results. He is more knowledgeable than others but doesn't perform. His people standards are not high enough, and he isn't demanding. His leadership skills are underdeveloped. Make sure he gets some help.
~ Larry Bossidy
performing at the level that is essential for the company's success.
~ Larry Bossidy
The gap between promises and results is widespread and clear. The gap nobody knows is the gap between what a company's leaders want to achieve and the ability of their organization to achieve it.
~ Larry Bossidy
It's amazing . . ." he said. "When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.
~ Laura Dave
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
~ Florence Nightingale
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence
~ Francisco Varela
Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.
~ Theobald Smith
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
~ Herbert Spencer
Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.
~ Tony Robbins
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
~ Gregory Benford
What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.
~ Harold Jeffreys
In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.
~ George Biddell Airy
In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.
~ Michael Crichton
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
~ Walther Nernst
The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.
~ Ann Druyan
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
~ Charles Buxton
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.
~ Stanley B. Prusiner
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.
~ John Dewey
Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that
~ Tom Izzo
Sow the seeds of creation, and worry not about the results, for they shall blossom in the harvest of Life.
~ Abir Taha
We had moved in a single November night from ideology to politics—from what you _want_ to what you do—with the usual disappointing results.
~ Adam Gopnik