Quotes with results

  • For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
  • Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.
  • Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
  • In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
  • The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called conditioning. In operant conditioning we strengthen an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
  • Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
  • Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
  • In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
  • What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
  • Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
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  • Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Thomas Jefferson My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Robert Anthony Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • B. C. Forbes A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • R. Buckland A large body of research results demonstrates that an observer can be persuaded to conform to the majority opinion, even when the majority is completely wrong.
    R. Buckland
     
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Bennett Cerf A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
    On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Barbara Cartland Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Billy Collins Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Brad Gilbert Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Rauner Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
    Bruce Rauner
    American businessman, philanthropist and politician (1956 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • John Maynard Keynes Capitalism is the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bobby Flay Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ted Engstrom Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.
    Ted Engstrom
    American Christian leader (1916 - 2006)
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  • Peter F. Drucker Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Bo Bennett Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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