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• The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

  Nate Silver

  Enemy Of Progress, Quests, Certainty

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• Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

  Harvey Mackay

  Attitude

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• ...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

  Rene Dubos

  Dark, Age, May

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• All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Evil, Evidence, Capitalism

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• When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.

  Bruce Mau

  May, Want, Process

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• In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Involvement

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• The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

  Evan Harris

  Perseverance, Long, Quitting

  Evan Harris (2004). “The Art of Quitting: When Enough is Enough”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

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• The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Lying, Essence, Risk

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.239, John Wiley & Sons

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• A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

  Karl E. Weick

  Winning, Opportunity, Opponents

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• The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

  Louis Menand

  Puff, Stories, Ends

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• We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Our Actions, Strategy, Acceptable

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• Anything can be worked out, between anyone, at anytime, when you want the outcome bad enough.

  Pat Croce

  Want, Enough

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• We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret, either for publication or for a journal no one will see, or we write poems to be privately printed for the eyes of friends alone - this is not our choice. The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God.

  Sophy Burnham

  Writing, Eye, Choices

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• The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Thinking, Imagination, Meals

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• Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that.

  Justin Kan

  Circumstances

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• Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Patriotic, Eye, Dust

  Thorstein Veblen (2006). “An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace, and the Terms of Its Perpetuation”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Couple, Missing, Affair

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• Each to choose their own paths in life, regardless of education, no one can predict the outcome, then one goal in front of him. Anything that can be based on the values of what's coming

  Istvan Molnar

  Education, Goal, Path

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• Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Military, Political, Humanity

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.27, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Concealed in every new situation we face is a spiritual lesson to be learned and a spiritual blessing for us if we learn that lesson. It is good to be tested. We grow and learn through passing tests. I look upon all my tests as good experiences. Before I was tested, I believed I would act in a loving or non-fearing way. After I was tested, I knew! Every test turned out to be an uplifting experience. And it is not important that the outcome be according to our wishes.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Blessing

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• A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Baby, Children, Opportunity

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• When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.

  Herbert Hoover

  Meetings, Has Beens

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• In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Taken, Principles

  Sigmund Freud (1955). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome

  John Wooden

  Mirrors, Looks, Do The Best

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• When a problem first arises, try to remain humble and maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Humble, Trying

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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