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• Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.

  Hillary Clinton

  Land, Two, Cliffs

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Errors, Apathy, Too Late

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• Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

  Arundhati Roy

  House, Events, Ordinary

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.32, Penguin Books India

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• History admits no rules; only outcomes.

  David Mitchell

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.505, Random House Group

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• In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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• The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

  Tibor Kalman

  Successful, Knowing Nothing, Perfect

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• Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

  Jodi Picoult

  Substance, Determine

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

  Jon Krakauer

  Success, Moral Absolutism, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jun 21, 2012

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• Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

  Natsuki Takaya

  People, Strange, Sometimes

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• All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

  Norman Doidge

  Intelligent, Essence, Worry

  "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science". Book by Norman Doidge, 2007.

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• Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strength, Struggle, Winning

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• 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.

  David Allen

  Taken, Done, Steps

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.58, Penguin

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• What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.

  William James

  Holiday, Mean, Responsibility

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• We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Moving, Skills, People

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• If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hero, Judging, World

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• The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

  Erich Fromm

  Stronger, Life Is, Destruction

  Erich Fromm (1941). “Escape from Freedom”, Henry Holt & Company

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• Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dream, Spiritual, Mind

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• You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Comedy, Euphemism

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.938, Penguin

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• From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Triumph, Events, Steps

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• The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

  Julia Cameron

  Mean, Too Much, Productive

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.75, Penguin

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• But if fate won’t be denied...if it’s set, how could there be infinite possibilities? (Kat) Only certain aspects are fated. The outcome isn’t. It was fated that Sin would loose his godhood. The means and what followed were determined by free will. Free will is that one scary variable that sets so much into motion that no one, not even I, have control over. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Fate, Scary

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• The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Reflection, Law

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.64, Cambridge University Press

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• Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

  Hannah Arendt

  Frustration, Men, Temptation

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• I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Thinking, Knowing

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

  Alice Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, May

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.162, Penguin

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