Outcomes Quotes - Page 2

• I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

  Sara Blakely

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

  E. M. Forster

  Fear, Past, Freedom Of Speech

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Kindness, Giving Up

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.16, Hazelden Publishing

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• Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

  John Ortberg

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

  Sara Blakely

  Birthday, Dad, Growing Up

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• There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Worry, Way, Should

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• From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

  David Simon

  Spiritual, Attachment, Expression

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.28, Health Communications, Inc.

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• It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

  Paul Theroux

  Hero, Boredom, Novelists

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• A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Creativity, Ideas

  Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, May 3, 1949.

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• When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Long, Term

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• Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives.

  Daya Mata

  Lying, Giving, Perfect

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• Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

  Shawn Achor

  Important, Study, Shows

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.42, Random House

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• If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  No Fear, Circumstances, Concerned

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• Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Grace, Mind, Desire

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• Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Thinking, People, Negative

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

  Erwin McManus

  Chance, Process, Persons

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• Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational Life, Play, Details

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.137, Penguin

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• Wake up every day knowing that today is a new day and only you can determine the outcome of that day. So dream big, accept the challenge, and never look back.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Motivational, Dream, Gymnastics

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• Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Disappointment, Moving, Heart

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• It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

  Herodotus

  Design, Favour, Sound

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.508, OUP Oxford

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• Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Odds, Alternatives, Causes

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.224, Penguin UK

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• Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content--these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Anxious Thoughts, Giving

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• You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don't choose to be.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Faces, Situation, Power Of Thought

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 07, 2015

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• Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

  John Jay Chapman

  Government, Virtue

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.19, University of Illinois Press

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• Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Permanent, Untruth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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