Outcome Determination Quotes

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

The only time you know for sure whether creating a result is possible or not is when you have done it. All other thoughts on the matter are simply speculation.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

The wind blows on us all, but it's how you set your ssail that makes the difference.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

What matters is not a simple sense of an issue’s salience, but whether a government can shape outcomes on it, where there is the greatest likelihood that the parties will actually be able to implement their policies.

I learned that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.

It's up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team.

Think positive girl, or the world ends.

You can have all the intentions you want and try and guide the narrative, but the narrative is irrelevant because it's how the public digests it that will be indicative of what the series will ultimately be.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

Everything happens for a reason. Say if I don't get a role, it may be that it would have stopped me getting another role.

Congressional investigations are not serious.... If you are really investigating something, you do not decide what the conclusion should be and then hold hearings to demonstrate those conclusions.... In politics, facts don't matter; you can say anything.

My attitude affects my actions. So, if I have a negative attitude about it, then it is going to show up in the way I respond, but if I have a positive attitude, then I start looking for the things I can do that will make my life better and make the lives of people around me better.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently