Results Quotes

Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.

Experience is never at fault; it is only your judgment that is in error in promising itself such results from experience as are not caused by our experiments. For having given a beginning, what follows from it must necessarily be a natural development of such a beginning, unless it has been subject to a contrary influence, while, if it is affected by any contrary influence, the result which ought to follow from the aforesaid beginning will be found to partake of this contrary influence in a greater or less degree in proportion as the said influence is more or less powerful than the aforesaid beginning.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces- desire, belief, and expectation.

Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.