Outcomes Quotes - Page 31

• Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Running, Long, Giving

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

  Learned Hand

  Maturity, Years, Retrospect

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

  Honore de Balzac

  Events, Individual, Absolutes

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• Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcome of my will being brought into subjection to the Divine will. It is the blessed assurance that God does all things well, and is, even now, making all things work together for my ultimate good.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Blessed, Heart, Understanding

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• Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.

  Yunho

  Dwelling

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• It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Character, Five Senses

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Destiny, Arbitrary, Alive

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• You can't bank on the outcome.

  Daniel Berrigan

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• A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Men, Supplements

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• People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Nature, People, Conquer

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• Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hope, Pain, Smart

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• Not the outcome any of us wanted.

  Jeff Bezos

  Wanted

  "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon". Book by Brad Stone, October 15, 2013.

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• If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

  Julian Baggini

  Jobs, Opportunity, Priorities

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought that if I worried about something enough, it wouldn't happen. I forgot to worry about Parkinson's.

  Tracy Pollan

  Worry, Live In The Moment, I've Learned

  "Oprah Talks to Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan". www.oprah.com. March 15, 2002.

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• Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

  David Baldacci

  Believe, People, Justice

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• In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Attitude, War, Party

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• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Country, Mortality, Infant

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• The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

  Tim Finn

  Joy, Trying, Conscious

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

  Adolf Galland

  War, Winter, Russia

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• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  Tatyana Ali

  School, Long, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Thinking, Law

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• Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

  Anthony Giddens

  Philosophical, Taken, Mean

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• Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

  Sara Blakely

  Trying, Age, Want

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• The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Order, Style, Grids

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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