Result Quotes - page 2

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. (Michael Jordan)
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. View quote
Denis Diderot
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. View quote
Sigmund Freud
And had I taken the line-so often adopted by strong men in controversy-of justifying the means by the result. View quote
Jerome
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. View quote
Manuel Puig
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. View quote
Martha Beck
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. (Luke Harding)
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. View quote
George Gaylord Simpson
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Optimizing responses of economic agents are simultaneously feasible only if the proper prices are already known to them. But these prices must somehow themselves be the result of the same responses. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose. View quote
Michael Pollan
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America. View quote
George Gershwin
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. View quote
George Gershwin
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces. View quote
José Rizal
Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic. (Vivienne Westwood)
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. View quote
Adam Ferguson
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
In mainstream economic theory, the firm and the market are, for the most part, assumed to exist and are not themselves the subject of investigation. One result has been that the crucial role of the law in determining the activities carried out by the firm and in the market has been largely ignored. View quote
Ronald Coase