#results

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

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted. ↗

— Donald Cram

#by the time #completed #conducted #eventually #experiments

Duty is ours, results are God's. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#results #attitude

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#cause-and-effect #chain-of-events #chance #change #choice

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. ↗

— Ian Williams

#closer #distortion #guitar #i #i think

Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#courage #decisions #goals #outcome #quotes

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God. ↗

— Alex Harris

#god #hope #inspirational #results #truth

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#areas #defence #drive #great #hardware

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#despair #dreams #give #how #intellectual

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#average #average people #hires #out #people