Top 100 Quotes About Results
#1. Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
Patrick Leahy
#2. Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.
Tony Robbins
#3. Pay-for-performance will only raise costs if providers get higher pay for process compliance but do not have to compete on results.
Michael E. Porter
#4. Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant
#5. [He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.
Georgette Heyer
#6. When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.
Ralph Marston
#7. Emphasising what's in your control allows you to adopt an attitude of equanimity toward luck. You've done what you can, and from there you have to live with the results - good or bad
Michael Mauboussin
#9. Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.
Friedrich Hayek
#10. For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
T. S. Eliot
#11. If girls realized their responsibilities they would be so careful when they smiled that they would probably abandon the practice altogether. There are moments in a man's life when a girl's smile can have as important results as an explosion of dynamite.
P.G. Wodehouse
#12. Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency to be impartial when its vested interest lies wholly in the direction of increasing your commissionable advertising.
David Ogilvy
#13. When thought and action are combined, the results are powerful-among the most powerful forces on earth. The combination of successful communication-the sharing of thoughts-and physical action can, literally, move mountains.
Peter McWilliams
#14. Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible.
William S. Burroughs
#15. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results.
Robert M. Pirsig
#16. The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
J. D. Hayworth
#17. When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.
Umberto Eco
#18. Zero preparation gives zero results. 0x0= 0
Jonah Books
#19. For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.
Adolf Hitler
#21. Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was ... frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to ... let it go.
Pharrell Williams
#22. You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.
Michael Chang
#23. The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.
James Arthur Ray
#24. Your team may be called "quality assurance." Don't let that go to your head. Your test results and bug reports provide information that facilitates the assurance of quality on the project, but that assurance results from the effort of the entire team.
Cem Kaner
#25. Among the most important things to remember about evolution - and about its primary mechanism, natural selection, as limned by Darwin and his successors - is that it doesn't have purposes. It only has results. To
David Quammen
#26. The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.
Ralph Abraham
#27. Combining influencing tactics, such as authority and scarcity, can strengthen any social engineering campaign for maximum results.
Jeremiah Talamantes
#28. I have decided to endorse Governor John Kasich for president because he is a leader who has a proven record of delivering results. John turned Ohio around at a tough time, and I believe he can do the same for our country.
Rob Portman
#29. When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.
Roy Keane
#30. We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.
Karsten Harries
#31. First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere - in fact that is the only question which in the least affects the results of the elections.
Henry L. Benning
#33. All results no matter how magnificent are infinitesimal when compared to future possibility.
James Arthur Ray
#34. The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
Tom Stoppard
#35. The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes. Results, not causes; results, not causes.
John Steinbeck
#36. You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.
David Dewhurst
#37. Throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the
approach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it.
The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological.
Liddell Hart
#38. We need to capitalize on the tracks we're really, really good at. At Richmond and Martinsville, our performance and results have not been very good, even though I consider them to be among my two best racetracks.
Denny Hamlin
#39. The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#40. If we go out there and do our best every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.
Stuart Pearce
#41. Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.
Michael Gerber
#42. Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#43. Modern tests of working memory require the individual to switch repeatedly between two demanding tasks, retaining the results of one operation while performing the other. People who do well on these tests tend to do well on tests of general intelligence.
Daniel Kahneman
#44. Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.
Wilhelm Wundt
#45. Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward ...
Thomas A. Edison
#46. The same road always leads to the same place. If we get on it expecting to go somewhere different, we'll be disappointed, won't we? As you said, it isn't very smart.
... Do the same things, get the same results. Simple, stupid.
Lisa Wingate
#47. Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.
Ilka Chase
#48. I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".
A.E. Samaan
#49. Tatemae is a charming attitude when it means that everyone should look at the other way at a guest's faux pas in the tearoom; it has dangerous and unpredictable results when applied to corporate balance sheets, drug testing, and nuclear-power safety reports.
Alex Kerr
#50. Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#51. What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
Bernard Crick
#52. Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
Helene Cixous
#53. Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying.
David Wheeler
#54. The lack of short-term stress results in a lack of long-term health. When you always protect a human body from harm, you grow it to be fragile.
Jurgen Appelo
#55. Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations.
Steve Maraboli
#56. Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.
Geoffrey Wood
#57. Don't mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it's no different from children running around the playground - everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.
John Wooden
#58. A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.
Pema Chodron
#59. Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Richard Feynman
#60. I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.
Dax Shepard
#61. I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.
Bill Rodgers
#62. My spray-tan woman is amazing. She comes to my house at 10 o'clock the night before a shoot. The results are so brown, flawless, and natural. It's just weird because my natural skin color is very white, almost whitish yellow.
Christine Teigen
#63. Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results
Mark Twain
#64. The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Major Taylor
#65. Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad.
Jahangir Khan
#66. I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.
Tony Robbins
#67. The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
#68. Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Mark Victor Hansen
#69. Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time.
Orrin Woodward
#70. The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in the course of my methods of observation. If I have obtained some new results it is to this that I owe it.
Marcel Alexandre Bertrand
#71. Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."
David Quammen
#72. You can talk about results all you want, but they remain nothing more than ideas until you decide exactly how you're going to measure them.
Joseph Grenny
#73. The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'
Tim Ferriss
#74. I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.
Simon Hoggart
#75. Ultimate influence is the ability to get the results you want from others while helping them feel genuinely good about themselves.
Bob Burg
#76. While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.
Michael D. Higgins
#77. When you make decisions with an attitude of abundance, you always get better results.
Adana K. Washington
#78. Disciplining a righteous person once yields better results than disciplining an evil person a thousand times.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#79. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James 5:16 NLT
Dianne Neal Matthews
#81. As I mature as a chef, I no longer aim to pack multiple techniques and ingredients into a single dish. Realizing that restraint is more difficult, I find it often renders incredibly beautiful results.
Daniel Humm
#82. Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles. That's a quote from America's business philosopher, Jim Rohn.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#83. You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#85. I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results.
Shakuntala Devi
#86. Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.
Robin Sharma
#88. A better model of leadership means more effective leadership and better business results.
Bob Anderson
#89. Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
Ricky Gervais
#90. It is characteristic of modern outlook that we want quick results.
William Barclay
#92. You should never hold yourself accountable for results you don't control, but always for the strength of trying.
Michael Bennett
#93. Whenever the degraded majority and the promoted minority came into conflict (and there were plenty of opportunities for this, starting with the distribution of food) the results were explosive.
Viktor E. Frankl
#94. Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.
Bill Owens
#95. God does not demand that I be succesful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.
Mother Teresa
#96. The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
Aaron Klug
#97. There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.
M.F.K. Fisher
#98. Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.
Orrin Woodward
#99. Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.
Warren Buffett
#100. What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.
Roy H. Williams
