Outcomes quotes
394 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes."
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers."
"The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality."
"Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures."
"My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing."
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"Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives."
"Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be."
"If you do the same thing over and over again you cannot ever expect a different outcome."
"Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be."
"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"
"There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding."
"A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him."
"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."
"The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better."
"We're not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the election. You didn't have Republicans questioning whether or not [Barack] Obama legitimately beat John McCain in 2008."
"Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?"
"Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success."
"We only get what we believe that we deserve. Raise the bar, raise your standards and you will receive a better outcome."
"Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety."
"Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it."
"You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done."
"Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome."
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome"
"We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent."
"I believe in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life."
