Predicting Quotes
Predicting Quote of the day
People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.
I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden's.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.
To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.
A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.
My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.
We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.
People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.
Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.
The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.
I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.
People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.
Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice.
Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.
Hillary Clinton has had a small but persistent lead since June - anywhere from 2 to 5 points. The stock markets and the election betting pools are predicting a Clinton win.
No one is predicting that the Democrats will get the 30 pickups they need to take back the House majority.
I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.
Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
