Outcomes Quotes

• You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Libertarian
  • Bureaucracy
  • Procedures

• If you do things the same way you've always done them, you'll get the same outcomes you've always gotten. In order to change your outcomes, you've got to do things differently.

  

  Mark Victor Hansen
  • Order
  • Outcomes
  • Differently

• Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives.

  

  Daya Mata
  • Perfect
  • Lying
  • Accepting

• I think this is a moment where Donald Trump recognized the Republican establishment was much weaker, the party leaders were much weaker than they thought they were in terms of being able to dictate any outcomes.

  

  Ben Domenech
  • Leaders
  • Donald Trump
  • Establishment

• Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

  

  Morgan Wootten
  • Winning
  • Basketball
  • Games

• Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Peace
  • Societies

• The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.

  

  David Emerald Womeldorff
  • Experience
  • Focus
  • Vision

• I don't believe in worry. It doesn't change the outcome, but it make the now miserable, so I don't do it.

  

  Caragh M. O'Brien
  • Believe
  • Worry
  • Miserable

• An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Fate
  • Adventure
  • Situation

• There is no reason for women to trail behind men in social, economic, and political outcomes.

  

  Jose Angel Gurria
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trail

• By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Quality
  • Habit
  • Mindset

• I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Perfect
  • Situation
  • Absolutes

• I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Decision
  • Persons
  • Grandmother

• Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

  

  Bernie Brillstein
  • Art
  • Notes
  • Gestures

• [What if my advisor talks only about returns, not risk?] ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go get a new planner, someone who will get real.

  

  William Forsyth Sharpe
  • Risk
  • Jobs
  • Accounts

• When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • International
  • Outcomes
  • Controlling

• The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the result of negotiation strategies where the needs of both sides are considered important and an attempt is made to meet all needs. These solutions are appropriately called Win-Win because there are no losers. While often difficult to arrive at, the process leading to such solutions builds interpersonal relationships, increases motivation and improves commitment. Win-Win solutions are the most desirable outcomes of conflict resolution.

  

  Gabor Peter
  • Conflict
  • Solution
  • Outcomes

• There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Succeed
  • Failures
  • Outcomes

• I resisted using EHRs while an internist in Boston, as I wrote in my blog, ‘Why Be a Meaningful User.’ Over time, however, I found that working with health IT made me a better and safer physician. Most importantly, my patients received better, safer care and improved outcomes.

  

  David Blumenthal
  • Meaningful
  • Patient
  • Boston

• The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Creation
  • Movement
  • Class

• When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Chance
  • Differences
  • Breathe

• The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

  

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  • Differences
  • Expectations
  • Concerned

• The trouble is that we do not know whether it has delivered better outcomes or not in services. After more than a decade, the time is right now to carry out a study like this and see if devolution is delivering where it counts.

  

  Brian Donohoe
  • Trouble
  • Outcomes
  • Services

• A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

  

  Katie Salen
  • Player
  • Games
  • Conflict

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