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• When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency – the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Long, Vision

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• The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Soul, Desire, Battle

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• Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

  David Allen

  Brain, Steps, Action

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.69, Penguin

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• We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Work, Management, Process

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• War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

  A. J. Muste

  War, Way, Logical

  "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

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• I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.

  Catherine Ponder

  Perfect, Situation, Absolutes

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.154, Lulu.com

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• People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.

  Michael Lewis

  Successful, People, Luck

  "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  Adam Parfrey

  Play, Names, Dumb

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• When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

  T. D. Jakes

  Hurt, Past, Air

  T. D. Jakes (2013). “Are You Ready?: Nothing But the Blood of Jesus”, p.48, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Lonely, Finals, May

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• The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

  Catherine Crier

  Hearing, Provoking, Despicable

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• Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

  Richard Courant

  Struggle, Years, Intellectual

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

  Jack Ma

  Business, Employee, Customers

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• Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

  Michael Lewis

  Inspirational, Graduation, Luck

  "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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• Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

  Christopher Bond

  War, Mean, Stories

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• A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  People, Giving, Election

  "Venezuela’s Elections: A Building Block to Something Bigger" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

  Roz Savage

  Years, Links, Want

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• We only get what we believe that we deserve. Raise the bar, raise your standards and you will receive a better outcome.

  Joel Brown

  Believe, Bars, Standards

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2017

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• This point is . . . crucial,”  writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Writing, People, Growth

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• If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

  Tim Ferriss

  Risk, Negative, Irreversible

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• If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

  David Icke

  Games, Needs, Want

  David Icke (2003). “Tales from the Time Loop: The Most Comprehensive Exposé of the Global Conspiracy Ever Written and All You Need to Know to Be Truly Free”, David Icke Books

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• Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were more impressive than the staunchest unionist claims, could offer the rational worker no incentive to join; his individual efforts would not have a noticeable effect on the outcome, and whether he supported the union or not he would still get the benefits of its achievements.

  Mancur Olson

  Individual Effort, Achievement, Benefits

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.

  William Barrett

  Philosophy, Spring, Character

  William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books

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• If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sports, Art, Mean

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• The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Crazy, Race, Cities

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