If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.
According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.
The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
A positive mind plus positive words will equal a positive outcome.
I was investing more and more of myself into an outcome I couldn’t predict and would very likely be disappointed by. But for me there was no other option.
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.
The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.
I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
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.
Be happy about your pain because it makes you who you are. After the pain is over the outcome is becoming a stronger person than before
All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.
