“If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.” IfsWritingSometimesLossResultsOfficePaperMessagesConsequenceResponseAccessCommitMagazinesBossReportersCandor Author:Ron Suskind
“Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.” ImportantActionSimpleResultsEnvironmentInfluenceCrimeMurderComplexesCommitGenesInteractionOur ActionsTriggers Author:William Landay
“You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.” YearsSufferingSinResultsLandTearsFundamentalsDollarsWoodsCommitSoilFertilizerTravesty Author:George Washington Carver
“The effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go; with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all.” PeopleIfsWantMayEndsTogetherResultsGroupsJourneyEffectsPlanningCommitCentral PlanningJourney Together Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what you're doing. Don't worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.” MomentsFunResultsWorryCommitHaving FunRelax Author:John Goodman
“When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.” SelfHomeRunningEarthResultsDoorsStrangeFlyingCommitCraftsDesperateRunning AwayAirborne Book:A Bridge for Passing Source: A Bridge for Passing
“Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.” DifferentResultsCrimeBearsCrossesCommitCrowns Author:Juvenal
“To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.” IfsHandsSuccessSoundResultsEventsJudgingBattleKissingDecidedCourtErrorsDefeatCommitInstanceHeroismNelsonClouded Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.” MenEvilResultsVirtueSuccessfulAdvantageSakeCommittedPursuitCommitWickedVirtuousHeroism Author:Benjamin Haydon