Quotes about Outcome

paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

I must bear the consequences as I deserve!

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

What was it you said? After the math comes the aftermath?

When one employs a method of verifying miracles that insists that they be replicable in controlled settings, yet regards as natural and nonmiraculous any event that is so replicable,[121] one has framed the method so as to secure the expected antisupernatural outcome.