Selected results quotes

1. Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

2. In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.

3. Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

4. The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

5. No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

6. Big results require big ambitions.

7. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

8. Nothing will work unless you do.

9. One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

10. What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

11. I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

12. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

13. There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

14. You always succeed in producing a result.

15. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.

16. You ask me why I do not write something... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

17. You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

18. Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

19. It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts.

20. In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

21. It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

22. Take your time, and your patience will be rewarded.

23. Delivery, delivery, delivery.

24. We should do more, and talk less.[1]

25. La sociologie est la science qui possede le plus de methodes et le moins de resultats.

26. 'He's definitely the best player in the NBA -- to me. I don't know if winning the (MVP) award is important to him or not. But he has three (championship) rings and that's what it's all about.' - w:LeBron James[13]

27. I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work, if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say 'I don't care' with a straight face, and really mean it.

28. The non-profits spend far less for results than governments spend for failure.

29. We absolutely love women, we are passionate about what we do and we get great results. Women see that our rules are manageable and make a real difference. I don't think we are being bossy, no one is forced to follow the rules.

30. No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first things, principles, 'categories,' supposed necessities; and of looking towards last things, fruits, consequences, facts.

31. That's no problem for me I didn't mind if people wore pink bunny slippers as long as the job got done.

32. Work towards the cause, not the effect.

33. Exitus acta probat.

34. Shut up and calculate!

35. In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

36. One and one is two; two and two is four; and 'five will get you ten' if you work it right!

37. Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

38. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.