Outcomes Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• The risk is only in the outcome. You're going on a journey. You're going somewhere to play. And at that time, it felt right to spend that 11 or 12 days exploring this kind of role because it was so different and so challenging for me. It was really exciting to be able to show people, "Look, this is very different. Isn't it interesting?"

  Alicia Silverstone

  Journey, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done loads of collaborations and I'm never totally happy with the outcome because it feels like you're compromising something of yourself in it.

  Hudson Mohawke

  Collaboration, Done, Compromise

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Law, Hatred

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, William A. Haussmann, Maximilian August Mügge, John McFarland Kennedy, Anthony Mario Ludovici (1927). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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• You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Events, Realizing, Activity

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• Outlook determines outcome.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Outlook, Determine

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Be Mature (James): Growing Up in Christ”, p.33, David C Cook

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• Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

  Samuel Richardson

  Moving, Decision, Progress

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• Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Free Gifts, Saving

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

  Ludwig von Mises

  United States, Facts, Prosperity

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

  Charlie Munger

  Decent, Happens, Knows

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• The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any.

  Heidi Julavits

  Thinking, Psychics, Reason

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Practice, Analysis

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• The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

  Nick Saban

  Determination, Attitude, Successful

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• I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.

  Toby Hemenway

  Ideas, Creating, Design

  "Author Toby Hemenway believes permaculture could move us beyond 'sustainability'". Interview with Heather Shayne Blakeslee, www.gridphilly.com. October 1, 2015.

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• Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Opposites, Peaceful

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• Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren - outcome.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Land, Iraq

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• Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.

  Otto von Bismarck

  War, Russia, Pieces

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• The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cost, World, Healthcare

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• You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Men, Needs

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• The pain is the outcome of our bad deeds.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Pain, Deeds

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• I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Ambition, Goal

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success”, p.99, Revell

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