Outcome Evaluation Quotes

What gets measured gets done.

One of the challenges of a good policy is trying to figure out what your priorities are.

The Agency became so wrapped up in the military operation that it failed to appraise the chances of success realistically. Furthermore, it failed to keep the national policymakers adequately and realistically informed of the conditions considered essential for success.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

I've just come to try to see the positive in everything. Despite people saying 'The Room' is the worst movie or whatever, it's brought about a lot of great things.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.

The wise policymaker doesn't assume that any policy adopted in good faith will have good results. Instead, he or she weighs the likely outcome of any new policy based on facts and experience - not sentiments and dreams.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

We did 'The Conversation' on the Zeus network because we already are on TV and we felt like us being our own therapists could work. We tried it. We just gave it a shot since we already on blast and everybody creating their own stories about what they see. Just tried to give it a shot. Did it help? I don't know.

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to be describable. Some leaders try to insist, "The only acceptable goals are measurable," but that's actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you're making progress.

You can call it ugly if you want, but I'd call it a win.

[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.

The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

I've been right more than I've been wrong.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

We cannot decide on the efficacy of a medical treatment by counting the number of 'Likes' an intervention receives on Facebook; no matter what, professionals will still need to conduct continued clinical trials and evaluate their outcomes carefully.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.