#outcomes

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bureaucrats #everything #never #nothing #outcomes

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#words

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#desired-outcomes #projects #decisions

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#complex #irrational #life #messy #nothing

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#health #infant #infant mortality #lower #mortality

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#become #eventually #feminist #just #liberation

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. ↗

— David Baldacci

#been #believe #citizen #fiction #injustice

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#catalyst #causes #chain #events #extraordinary

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#decades #economic #few #i #i think