Quotes About Results

focusing on what, not how; results, not methods.

It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive

Good preparation led to good results

Principles had a nasty way of interfering with results.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. —George S. Patton

Simplify. Focus on results. You will always get what you focus on. If you merely focus on activities, that's what you'll get...a whole lot of activities. But if you focus on results, that's what you'll get. A whole lot of results.

You save time when you don't need to have an awards ceremony every time a C statement does what it's supposed to. Moreover

To experiment effectively, you must be willing to change your beliefs based on the results of the experiment

The results of a 1995 study conducted by Harvard Medical School indicated that alcoholics have a better chance of quitting drinking if they don't attend AA than if they do. Americans seldom hear about such results, in part because AA and its sister organizations have actively opposed independent research that could test their programs' effectiveness.

As we wrote earlier, the law of unintended consequences is among the most potent laws in existence.

One of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences.

People respond to incentives, although not necessarily in ways that are predictor manifest. Therefore, one of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences." ??SuperFreakonomics??

Some are products of the misconception that the benefits of democracy come from elections, whereas they depend more on having a government that is constrained in its powers, responsive to its citizens, and attentive to the results of its policies (chapter

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produce the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it. It's partly fate. It's partly inability. It's partly… unwillingness to learn? Refusal to learn? Motivated refusal to learn?

People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results.

La gente crea su propio mundo con las herramientas que tiene a su alcance y unas herramientas defectuosas producen resultados defectuosos. El uso repetido de las mismas herramientas defectuosas produce los mismos resultados defectuosos. Es así como aquellos que no han sacado ninguna lección del pasado quedan condenados a repetirlo. En parte es el destino; en parte, la incapacidad; y en parte..., ¿las pocas ganas de aprender?,

People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat

People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it. It's partly fate. It's partly inability. It's partly…unwillingness to learn? Refusal to learn? Motivated refusal to learn?

La gente crea su propio mundo con las herramientas que tiene a su alcance y unas herramientas defectuosas producen resultados defectuosos.

People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it.

You remember the old joke: insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.

Assessing the scale of the p-hacking problem is not so easy—