Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.
When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.
The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.
There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.
There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the 'credibility' of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.
Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.
Always focus on the outcome of a desired act.
Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if theyre out there, we better hope they never find us.
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.
Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
A great deal of it is personal. But the persona is, I guess, the out of body experience that takes place. Because I'm not conscious of what the outcome is going to be, I'm only conscious of my intentions, do you know what I'm saying? And even my intentions were simple initially.
Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.
Style is the outcome of constraint.
Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.