#outcomes

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#better #exploit #known #make #much

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#better #children #disservice #evidence #families

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

— Tammy Baldwin

#health #infant #infant mortality #lower #mortality

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

— Wade Boggs

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

— Martin Feldstein

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The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#damaging #gradual #more #outcomes #plausible

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#child #children #damaged #devastating #either

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

Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina. ↗

— Bev Perdue

#carolina #changed #changing #chose #could