Mixed Results Quotes

We screwed things up and got a lot of things right.

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

There are always benefits and good things, bad things that come out of every performance.

It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

I always had a fair share of hits and flops.

I didn't have a ton of success as Justin Hawk Bradshaw, but it wasn't a failure, either.

Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.

You can't be the best player if suddenly you play well and the next day you play badly.

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

Studies are studies. You get all kinds of studies.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Before I turned 30, I worked to create Ksenia Sobchak. Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be appalling and terrible in some respects, but nice in others.

Vancouver has always been a place of mixed results for me. I've always been fast there, but I've never been able to collect the kind of result I could have.

For me, in movies, it's always a mixed bag. I've never made a movie where I thought, "You were really good in that movie; you were good all the time." No. It's always, "You didn't get it, you didn't do it in that scene, but the other scene is pretty good." So I just hope that in balance there's more good scenes than not.

If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.