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• My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the protagonist of an epic novel, with the outcome predetermined and chapter after chapter of edifying, traumatic, and exhilarating events to be suffered through. Since the end is known in advance, one must try to experience as much as possible in the brief time allotted. Writing is a way of ensuring that you pay enough attention along the way to understand what you see.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Writing, Epic, College

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• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Children, Artist, Problem

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• We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.

  Alfie Kohn

  Important, May, Easy

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• I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to cast actors with talent, you need to hire directors with talent, but I've worked with very talented people who have a poor work ethic, and the outcome is less desirable than people who are less talented and have an incredible work ethic.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Work Ethic, Directors

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• Because I'm not attached to the outcome, I don't have to worry whether I succeed or fail.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Worry, Succeed, Failing

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.

  Bill McKibben

  Morning, Jobs, Optimistic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Military, Operations

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• The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  War, Destiny, Years

  "Iran's President Says Israel Must Be 'Wiped Off the Map'". "The World Without Zionism" conference, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2005.

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• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

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• As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. 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, Should Have, People

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• Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

  Annie Besant

  Fashion, Thinking, Atheism

  M V Srinivasa Aiyangar, Annie Besant (1915). “An Open Letter to Mrs. Annie Besant: Being a Reply to Her Attacks on Hinduism”

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• Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Literature, Language, Difficulty

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

  George W. Bush

  War, Humor, Justice

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Journey, Thinking, Meaning Of Life

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

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• The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

  Nick Cave

  Names, America, Bully

  "The resurrection of Nick Cave". Interview with Thomas Bartlett, www.salon.com. November 19, 2004.

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• For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Hands, Awkward, Insane

  "Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

  Miley Cyrus

  Life, Positive, Positivity

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• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

  Ted Dekker

  Mirrors, Dangerous World, Issues

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Educational, Birth Defects

  "Preventable Hunger in Our Land of Plenty" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Views, Feminist

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• Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

  Larry Elder

  Children, Father, Home

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• It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

  Tim Ferriss

  Mean, Important, Easy

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• Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  "Fostering Success" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2009.

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• The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Rights, Class, Black

  "The biggest brother" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Japan, Three, Needs

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