Outcomes Quotes - Page 2

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, "I should've..." You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

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.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

If you do the same thing over and over again you cannot ever expect a different outcome.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

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

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding.

Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not have any interest in the outcome, who call it as we see it no matter the consequences. But it seems a lot easier for chemists and anthropologists and pathologists to take that neutral role than it does for psychiatrists.