"Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure."

-- Hugh Prather

#Effort Quotes #Results Quotes #Unpredictable Quotes

“Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.”
“I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.”
“Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.”
“Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver”
“Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.”

Source : "My jailed Harry Potter co-star is the victim of a make-believe world" by Jessie Cave, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.
“I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.”
“Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
“School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.”

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