#result

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#awful #celebration #choose #could #desperate

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#anything #efforts #escape #evil #fruitless

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#end #end result #kindness #people #result

Realists do not fear the results of their study. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#realists #results #study #their

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#confusing #costs #did #does #help

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#crap #day #even #every #every day

We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results. ↗

— Candice S. Miller

#just #like #results #rules

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#counts #during #force #getting #goal

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#anyone #did #hard #i #results