Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is no evidence.
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished
Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision makes it fallacious. They remind me of Mark Twain's saying, 'A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar. ' Projections in America are often a lie, although not an intentional one, but the worst kind because the forecaster often believes them himself.
The individual skill of the player determines the outcome, unlike betting on the horses or betting on the lottery. It's not an individual betting against the house and that's an important distinction.
In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.
Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.
The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.
Be focused on process and not outcome
You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.
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?"
True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.
Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.
The outcome that we wish suddenly manifests itself in our reality, and the truth is, none of those things suddenly appeared. It is we who have suddenly appeared on the scene where they existed always.
There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.