It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.
Don't live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.
~ Germany Kent
The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.
There are no free passes in life, outcomes will always mirror the input.
~ Steven Redhead
It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.
~ Shannon L. Alder
In life, school, or work, you must resourcefully act with purpose, curiosity, and wisdom toward positive outcomes, if not a vision.
~ Jason L. Ma
It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.
We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.
Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we’ve created.
Every action you take, leads to a consequence you face. Choose wisely!
~ Kemi Sogunle
Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.
~ Anthon St. Maarten
What we believe about something often creates the outcome we experience.
~ Michael Hyatt
Maybe the thing that we’re losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place.
Via self-talk we give our mind instructions on what we expect of ourselves and so behave accordingly. Change the instructions and we change the outcomes.
~ Sam Owen
Take positive care of your mind, and it would surely take positive care of your life.
~ Hafiz
In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?
Our lives are shaped by the questions we ask. Good questions lead to good outcomes. Bad questions lead to bad outcomes.
Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.
~ Anthony Liccione
All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I’m having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?
We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.
Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance, that will determine your life. An Unstoppable Life begins by taking responsibility for your choices.
~ Thomas Narofsky
You know, if you're hopeful, if you're even a little bit happy about something that might happen, it doesn't affect the outcome. You could still give yourself a period of optimism, even if it all falls apart.
~ Michael Cunningham
While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.
~ Pawan Mishra
You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.
~ Bryant Mcgill
A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Maybe that’s why I get frustrated sometimes, because there’s no one to blame for how our lives have turned out. I wouldn’t change any of the things I’ve done, but at the same time I wish things were different than they are. I have no regrets, but there’s also no satisfaction in where I am.
~ Chris Dietzel
Just saying an intention and leaving it at that will not necessarily result in an outcome, if there is a stronger, more primal belief behind the scenes.
~ Miranda J. Barrett
The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.
Negativity feeds on itself, thereby compounding the potentially undesirable outcomes.
ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.
The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training.
~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: a project that should never have been built was built, and built badly.
~ Tim Harford
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
~ Tammy Baldwin
