Top 100 Outcome Quotes
#1. There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#2. Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.
Yunho
#3. There are no limits to starting over. That's why the sun rises every day. Unless you're running in circles and then the outcome never changes.
Karen White
#4. It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.
Dominique De Villepin
#5. I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy.
Lucas Papademos
#6. Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.
Bob Buford
#7. If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
Kamal Ravikant
#8. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.
Uzoma Nnadi
#9. I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome
or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.
Famke Janssen
#10. We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
A.J. Muste
#11. The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.
Beeban Kidron
#12. She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right.
Sarah Mayberry
#13. The only sure path is to live consciously, moment to moment, as you let go of the outcome.
Charlotte Kasl
#14. One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.
Robin Hobb
#15. Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.
Mira Kirshenbaum
#16. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
#17. The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.
Robert Collier
#18. The person who is least dependent on the outcome of the relationship will automatically draw the other person in.
Sherry Argov
#19. Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!
Osho
#20. God takes highly unlikely people, takes them into highly unlikely places, gives them a highly unlikely strategy,and gives them a highly unlikely outcome.
Christine Caine
#21. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered.
Stephen Jay Gould
#22. The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.
Mark Batterson
#23. Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
Murray Gell-Mann
#24. If doing the most you can for others means that you are also flourishing, then that is the best possible outcome for everyone.
Peter Singer
#25. A positive mind plus positive words will equal a positive outcome.
Christina Lockett
#26. I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
Tatyana Ali
#27. Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#28. If I know the outcome is not going to devastate my life, it makes me so much more excited for everything that's to come.
Sara McMann
#29. Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.
Gary Zukav
#30. Oftentimes, the best negotiations result in a deal that benefits both parties. There are times when you simply want to go for the jugular, but often, you want the other person to feel pleased with the outcome, even if you are the clear victor.
Ivanka Trump
#31. Surrender is not giving up, far from it. Surrender takes an enormous amount of courage. Often we are only capable of doing so when the pain of trying to control the outcome becomes too much to bear.
Bronnie Ware
#32. Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
David Allen
#33. If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
Elon Musk
#34. Feeling good is a natural outcome of doing good; and doing good is a natural outcome of being good.
Shiv Khera
#35. You got no soul, Cap'n," he said. "When a stranger comes into the city under the thrall of the dragon and challenges it with a glittery sword, weeell, there's only one outcome, ain't there? It's probably destiny.
Terry Pratchett
#36. I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.
William J. Clinton
#37. The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history.
Patrick Mendis
#38. I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.
Tina Fey
#39. We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.
Robert Henri
#40. The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.
Sun Tzu
#42. Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)
Bill George
#43. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.
Sheryl Sandberg
#44. The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.
Dashiell Hammett
#45. The internet is bringing our collective conscious together by showing the good and bad in humanity. Good Netiquette is the outcome.
David Chiles
#46. Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated ... what is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man and from nature.
Erich Fromm
#47. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.
Bruce Mau
#48. You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
Carlos Ghosn
#49. The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.
Ludwig Von Mises
#50. The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.
Chiang Kai-shek
#51. First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.
Wayne Dyer
#52. When leaders become focused on the fruit instead of the root and worry about the outcome instead of the process of developing team members, they may survive in the short run, but they will not thrive in the long run.
Jon Gordon
#53. When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
Elon Musk
#54. Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.
Marvin Hagler
#55. Many of us hold ourselves back from imagining a desired outcome unless someone can show us how to get there. Unfortunately, that's backward in terms of how our minds work to generate and recognize solutions and methods.
David Allen
#56. New idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way," Einstein once said. "But," he hastened to add, "intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience."8
Walter Isaacson
#57. One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.
Brian Greene
#58. In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?
Michael Hyatt
#59. In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually determined, at least heavily conditioned by the fact that it implies a better ethical outcome than the alternatives.
David Novak
#60. The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.
Ted Cruz
#61. You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.
Henry A. Kissinger
#62. There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
Robert Casey
#64. And as long as the outcome of any combination of two or more members is itself a member of the group.
Paul Watzlawick
#65. It struck at the root of intentions, not at the flower.
And both root and the flower were important to him, one having to do with what one meant to do ... and the other, most fearsome, with the outcome of it.
C.J. Cherryh
#66. In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.
Jacqueline Cochran
#67. Outcome of the present struggle between Russia and Japan, its significance lies in the fact that a nation of the East, equipped with Western weapons and girding itself with Western energy of will, is deliberately measuring strength against one of
Lafcadio Hearn
#68. George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.
David Lange
#69. Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.
Molly Friedenfeld
#70. To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.
Diane Dreher
#71. Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.
Dustin Poirier
#72. The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
Ludwig Von Mises
#73. I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.
Charles Stross
#74. If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.
Chin-Ning Chu
#75. In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.
Matthew Kelly
#77. You can't live an unhealthy lifestyle and expect a healthy outcome.
Frank Sonnenberg
#78. Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome.
Dawn Gluskin
#79. We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good - for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It's called 'moral vanity'.
Greg Egan
#80. Outcome is not vital! All what matters is your effort and devotion towards it ... !!
Nehali Lalwani
#81. I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
#82. In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.
Theodor Adorno
#83. No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness - by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15
Jane McGonigal
#84. The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.
Phil Jackson
#85. The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.
Catherine Crier
#86. We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
Lucy Powell
#87. In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.
Leonard Jacobson
#88. The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.
Henry Louis Gates
#89. The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them.
Steve McConnell
#90. Then, a life was ending. Here, one was about to begin. I didn't believe in signs. But it was hard to ignore the fact that someone, somewhere, might have wanted me to go through this again and see there was another outcome.
Sarah Dessen
#91. As you search for a person, place, or thing, be prepared to continue your quest, should the end result not yield your desired outcome. Enjoy the process and you'll avoid disappointment ... !
James A. Murphy
#92. Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#93. Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
Alan Moore
#94. Failure is a part of success. Every perceived loss is a lesson for a better outcome next time.
Joan Pillen
#95. That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome.
Peter Monn
#96. The scoreline didn't really reflect the outcome
Tony Gubba
#97. For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.
Jerry I. Porras
#98. For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
E. O. Wilson
#99. I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
Harold H. Greene
#100. The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.
Gregory Benford
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