Outcomes Quotes

• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  Wade Boggs

  Positive, Attitude, Ties

  "The Frame We Put Around Our Circumstances" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Success, Achievement

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• Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Helping Others, Common Vision

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• Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

  Epictetus

  Exercise, Effort

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• It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

  John Edward Gray

  Problem, Situation, Solutions

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• The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Successful, Luck, Looks

  Dashiell Hammett (2007). “The Dain Curse: The Glass Key ; and Selected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Courage, Sunset, Despair

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Libertarian, Procedures, Bureaucracy

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

  Enrico Fermi

  Science, Discovery, Two

  "Nuclear Principles in Engineering". Book by Tatjana Jevremovic, 2005.

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• Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

  Charlie Munger

  Incentives, Show Me, Shows

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• Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

  William James

  Success, Confidence, Believe

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• 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.

  Mark Twight

  Events, May, Chaos

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.47, The Mountaineers Books

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• To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Doubt, Have Faith, Worst

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• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  Development, Farmers, Humans

  "How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 17, 2012.

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• In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Thinking, Attachment

  "This much I know". Interview with Fionola Meredith, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• Always focus on the outcome of a desired act.

  Peter Lowe

  Focus

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• If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Inspiration, Athlete

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• I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspirational, Believe, Opportunity

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• Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Fire, Feelings

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

  Hugh Mackay

  Relationship, Perfect, Dating

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• There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.110, Penguin

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