Quotes About Results

When we work backward from results to figure out why those things happened, we are susceptible to a variety of cognitive traps, like assuming causation when there is only a correlation, or cherry-picking data to confirm the narrative we prefer. We will pound a lot of square pegs into round holes to maintain the illusion of a tight relationship between our outcomes and our decisions.

Look how quickly you can begin to redefine what it means to be wrong. Once we start thinking like this, it becomes easier to resist the temptation to make snap judgments after results or say things like "I knew it" or "I should have known." Better decision-making and more self-compassion follow.

When we think probabilistically, we are less likely to use adverse results alone as proof that we made a decision error, because we recognize the possibility that the decision might have been good but luck and/ or incomplete information (and a sample size of one) intervened.

Because any decision determines only the set of possible outcomes (some good, some bad, some in between), this means good outcomes can result from both good and bad decisions, and bad outcomes can result from both good and bad decisions.

Finish lines are funny things. You either reach them or you don't. You either succeed or you fail. There is no in between. Progress along the way matters very little.

It doesn't so much matter where we end up as how we got there. What has happened in the recent past drives our emotional response much more than how we are doing overall. That's how we can win $100 and be sad, and lose $100 and be happy.

blaming others for their bad results and failing to give them credit for their good ones is under the influence of ego.

We're professional footballers, so we have to go out there and perform as best we can and try and get the results that we want.

You have to remember that professional football is a job, too, and some people have to get results on the pitch to pay to live.

As modern-day professionals it all comes down to how you perform on the pitch.

I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.

I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

I've been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results.

Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.

The most important metrics are did we execute the way in which we said we would, and did we deliver the value to the business that we had promised?

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

Proof is the product that you put on the field.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.