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“I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.”

Ends Values Results Authority Scared Telling The Truth Assets Diminish End Results

Author:Susan Powter

“In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.”

People Ends America Stars Results Focus End Results

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.”

Ifs Ends Process Interesting Results Eating Music Is Cooking Cooks End Results Eating Food

Author:Ryan Adams

“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

“I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.”

People Knows Ends Together Desire Results Car Design Built Competition Designer End Results Horsepower

Author:Carroll Shelby

“In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.”

Kind Ends Reason Character Grows Results Originals Various Mask Our Society Protective End Results

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.”

“Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.”

Should Writing Art Ends Song Dark Results Quality Mysterious Songwriting End Results

Author:Martin Gore

“In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability.”

Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment

“The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.”

Want Mind Ends Play Happens Able Song Results Situation Knowing Addiction End Results

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.”

Ends Suffering Results Dog Behavior Wicked Righteous Positively Predator Decree Slums End Results Culmination Bad Behavior

Author:Ilana Mercer

“The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.”

People Ends Country Use Results Environment Needed Areas Strategy Release Landscape Regions Occupation Sole Household Adoption Wildlife Settlement Permaculture End Results Flora

Author:Bill Mollison