300 Quotes on Result

• Success is a result of hard work, persistence, and a little bit of luck.

  Author: Samantha Smith

• Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

  Author: Mortimer Zuckerman

• Every choice you make has an end result.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

  Author: Will Wright

• The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

  Author: Rick Wright

• Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

  Author: Frank Wright

• Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

  Author: John Wooden

• In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

  Author: James Wilson

• If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

  Author: Walter Williams

• When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

  Author: Juan Williams

• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

  Author: Patrick White

• Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

  Author: Edwin Whipple

• Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  Author: William Whewell

• And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

  Author: Julius Wellhausen

• To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

  Author: Julius Wellhausen

• Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

  Author: Johnny Weissmuller

• For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.

  Author: Allen Weinstein

• This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

  Author: Chris Wedge

• As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

  Author: Max Webber

• A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

  Author: Paul Watzlawick

• Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

  Author: Booker Washington

• Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

  Author: John Walters

• As a result of the 'hung' election of November 1932. Hitler set in motion the first of the 9 steps he would take in the next 52 days, which would, finally, bring him absolute power.

  Author: William Waller

• Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

  Author: Richard Wagner

• Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

  Author: A. Vogt

• Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

  Author: Suzanne Vega

• I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

  Author: Douglas Trumbull

• Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.

  Author: Ed Townsend

• Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

  Author: Sara Teasdale

• It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

  Author: Graham Taylor

• Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

  Author: Roger Staubach

• In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

  Author: Abdolkarim Soroush

• The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

  Author: George Soros

• People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

  Author: Tom Snyder

• Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

  Author: Olympia Snowe

• Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.

  Author: John Snow

• Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

  Author: Alfred Sloan

• Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

  Author: George Simpson

• The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

  Author: Georg Simmel

• Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

  Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz

• However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.

  Author: Fred Shero

• Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

  Author: William Sherman

• In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

  Author: Archie Shepp

• It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

  Author: Mary Shelley

• There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

  Author: Billy Sheehan

• When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.

  Author: John Shadegg

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  Author: Nassau Senior

• Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

  Author: Erwin Schrodinger

• Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share.

  Author: Stanley Schmidt

• And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

  Author: Terry Savage

• The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.

  Author: Frederick Sanger

• We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

  Author: Bernard Sanders

• In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  Author: John Ruskin

• The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

  Author: Charles Rosen

• The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

  Author: Elihu Root

• The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result.

  Author: Bobby Robson

• You always succeed in producing a result.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  Author: Rainer Rilke

• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Author: Pat Riley

• If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

  Author: Charles Richter

• The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

  Author: Robert Reich

• He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

  Author: John Ransom

• The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

  Author: Marc Racicot

• One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

  Author: Nido Qubein

• Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• 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.

  Author: Susan Powter

• Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

  Author: Colin Powell

• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Author: Colin Powell

• I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

  Author: Katherine Porter

• It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

  Author: Jackson Pollock

• Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

  Author: Marcus Pollio

• Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

  Author: Marcus Pollio

• If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

  Author: John Podesta

• The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.

  Author: Henri Pirenne

• The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

  Author: Gifford Pinchot

• War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

  Author: Albert Pike

• But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.

  Author: John Perkins

• Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

  Author: James Penney

• Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

  Author: Jean-Marie Pen

• The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

  Author: Jean-Marie Pen

• And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

  Author: Lester Pearson

• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

  Author: Norman Peale

• The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

  Author: Jean Paul

• Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

  Author: C. Parkinson

• Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

  Author: David Packard

• If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

  Author: Adnan Pachachi

• Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

  Author: Major Owens

• People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

  Author: Major Owens

• America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

  Author: John Olver

• So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

  Author: John Olver

• The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

  Author: Sadaharu Oh

• I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

  Author: Ellen Ochoa

• It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.

  Author: David Obey

• Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people.

  Author: Donald Norman

• When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.

  Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

• There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

  Author: Reinhold Niebuhr

• The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

  Author: James Newman

• The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

  Author: Bob Nelson

• You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

  Author: Richard Needham

• If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

  Author: Bruce Nauman

• You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad.

  Author: Hidetoshi Nakata

• It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

  Author: Johannes Muller

• So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

  Author: Jose Mourinho

• Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

  Author: Johann Most

• So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

  Author: Emily Mortimer

• Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

  Author: Marston Morse

• The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

  Author: John Moody

• The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

  Author: George Mitchell

• War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

  Author: Ludwig Mises

• I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.

  Author: Jonathan Miller

• Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

  Author: Alice Miller

• Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

  Author: Paul Meyer

• We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

  Author: Russell Means

• The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

  Author: Will McDonough

• The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

  Author: Pete McCloskey

• So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

  Author: Bill McCartney

• I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.

  Author: James McAvoy

• So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

  Author: Richard Marx

• Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

  Author: Archer Martin

• Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.

  Author: Murray Mann

• Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

  Author: Maxwell Maltz

• It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

  Author: Gustav Mahler

• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  Author: Gavin MacLeod

• When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

  Author: John Lubbock

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  Author: Lance Loud

• The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

  Author: Titus Livius

• This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

  Author: Gabriel Lippmann

• The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet.

  Author: Wyndham Lewis

• We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

  Author: Percy Lewis

• Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

  Author: Arthur Levitt

• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

  Author: Carl Levin

• I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.

  Author: Carl Levin

• I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

  Author: Jonathan Lethem

• The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  Author: Madeleine L'Engle

• Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United.

  Author: Mark Lawrenson

• I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

  Author: David Lawrence

• I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

  Author: Pierre Laval

• We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

  Author: Robert Lanza

• As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

  Author: Norman Lamm

• Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

  Author: Henry Knox

• An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.

  Author: Nestor Kirchner

• The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

  Author: William King

• In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

  Author: Peter King

• But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.

  Author: Anselm Kiefer

• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  Author: Imran Khan

• Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

  Author: Kevin Kelly

• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Author: Helen Keller

• It's always nice to start off with a good result.

  Author: Robbie Keane

• But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

  Author: David Kay

• The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

  Author: David Kay

• There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

  Author: Steven Katz

• Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

  Author: Joseph Joubert

• I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

  Author: Michael Jordan

• Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.

  Author: Harry Johnston

• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

  Author: Roland Joffe

• I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

  Author: Fredric Jameson

• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  Author: William James

• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

  Author: William James

• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

  Author: William James

• It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

  Author: Helmut Jahn

• Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

  Author: Jesse Jackson

• I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

  Author: Lance Ito

• After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

  Author: Steve Israel

• As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

  Author: Steve Israel

• However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

  Author: Jeremy Irons

• I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.

  Author: Jacques Ibert

• At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

  Author: Joseph Hume

• Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

  Author: David Hume

• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

  Author: Arianna Huffington

• Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?

  Author: Mike Huckabee

• Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

• I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

  Author: Robert Howard

• The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.

  Author: David Houston

• I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

  Author: Laurence Housman

• As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

  Author: David Horowitz

• However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.

  Author: Tim Holden

• Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

  Author: Hans Hofmann

• I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

  Author: James Hillman

• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

  Author: Lauryn Hill

• Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

  Author: David Hilbert

• We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

  Author: Thor Heyerdahl

• What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

  Author: Hermann Hesse

• Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.

  Author: John Hersey

• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

  Author: Jack Herer

• I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

  Author: Keith Henson

• Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

  Author: Keith Henson

• The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

  Author: Donal Henahan

• When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

  Author: Robert Heinlein

• Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

  Author: Martin Heidegger

• Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

  Author: Rita Hayworth

• Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

  Author: Friedrich Hayek

• As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

  Author: Bob Hawke

• I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

  Author: Benjamin Harrison

• I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.

  Author: Marvin Harris

• I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.

  Author: Marvin Harris

• I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

  Author: Renny Harlin

• There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

  Author: Renny Harlin

• Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.

  Author: Lawrence Hargrave

• It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

  Author: Lawrence Hargrave

• I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

  Author: Michael Hall

• It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.

  Author: Kay Gusmao

• After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

  Author: Kay Gusmao

• Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

  Author: George Gurdjieff

• I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

  Author: Thom Gunn

• You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.

  Author: Juan Gris

• What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

  Author: Germaine Greer

• But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

  Author: Lee Greenwood

• I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.

  Author: Jonny Greenwood

• The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

  Author: Harold Greene

• The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

  Author: Bob Graham

• But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

  Author: Juan Goytisolo

• This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage.

  Author: Andrew Gould

• To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

  Author: Emma Goldman

• No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.

  Author: Theo Gogh

• Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

  Author: Arnold Glasow

• Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

  Author: Jonathan Gilbert

• I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

  Author: Steven Gerrard

• Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

  Author: Henry George

• Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

  Author: Paul Gauguin

• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Author: Paul Gallico

• Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

  Author: Alberto Fujimori

• The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

  Author: Erich Fromm

• I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

  Author: Fred Frith

• Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

  Author: James Frazer

• Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

  Author: Brendan Fraser

• There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

  Author: Barney Frank

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