Outcomes Quotes - Page 23

• We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Differences, Making A Difference

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom. On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's less well off to become tomorrow's rich, and in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a richer and fuller life.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Opportunity, Hands

  Free to Choose ch. 5 (1980).

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• I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Doors, Australia

  "Tony Abbott blames carbon tax for 'uncertainty'". "7.30' with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2012.

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• Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.

  Amy Cuddy

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

  "Does Body Language Shape Who You Are?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 13, 2013.

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• Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead to you claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves.

  Amy Cuddy

  Thinking, Ideas, Race

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• We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

  Ken Robinson

  Moving, Agriculture, People

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• It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Campaigns, Politician, Combination

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• For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Moon, Journey, Firsts

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• Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

  David Hare

  Advice, Investment

  "Ten rules for writing fiction", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong Women, Freedom, Europe

  Margaret Thatcher (2017). “On Europe”, p.1941, HarperCollins UK

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• You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.

  Jim Wallis

  Wind, Political, Debate

  Jim Wallis (2006). “God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it”, p.22, Lion Books

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• Everything bad that's ever happened in my life I've seen an outcome that's positive later on.

  Diem Brown

  Happened

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• Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Waiting, Anxiety, Certain

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2016). “The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith”, p.86, Hay House, Inc

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• Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the missile strikes its intended target or incinerates a goat-herder and his flock is incidental. In fact, the occasional killing of civilians may well be a desired outcome since collateral deaths intensify the fear. This is punishment by example, not for any particular crime or impending threat, but merely because of who you are, where you live, what you might believe. These new circuitries of death are meant to humiliate, subdue and dehumanize.

  Jeffrey St. Clair

  Believe, Punishment, Drones

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• I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

  Shawn Colvin

  Song, Writing, Successful

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• Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to the parents of a dying child. It holds up victory over the inevitable and beckons us to crawl further over slicing shards, all the while pulling back, remaining just out of reach. It makes agony out of mere pain by pretending a different outcome could have been. It laughs at mankind's embrace of it after millennia of disappointment.

  Robert Liparulo

  Children, Pain, Disappointment

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• Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

  Cesar Millan

  Problem, Aggression

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• If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Daughter, Regret, Race

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• 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

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Mean, Tiny, Chaos

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• I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

  Guy Clark

  Couple, Guitar, Building

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• The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

  Sean Parker

  Entrepreneur, Understanding, Important

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• Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I have little doubt that private investors will in fact bear the losses-even if this leads to an outcome that is messier and more costly to society than we would ideally like. Dodd-Frank is very clear in saying that the Federal Reserve and other regulators cannot use their emergency authorities to bail out an individual failing institution

  Jeremy C. Stein

  Loss, Political, Doubt

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• [It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

  Shawn Achor

  Educational, Reality, Views

  "The happy secret to better work". TEDxBloomington Talk, www.ted.com. May 2011.

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• [Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

  Helen Fisher

  Thinking, Data, Brain

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• It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

  Albert Hofmann

  Discovery, Serendipity, Research

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview With Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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