89 Likelihood Quotes

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Famous Likelihood Quotes

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability. — James Clerk Maxwell

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. — Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle

I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me — Napoleon Bonaparte

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero. — Philip Morrison

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. — Aristotle

All knowledge degenerates into probability. — David Hume

What is true is no more sure than the probable — Greek Proverbs

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. — Elon Musk

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. — Andy Rooney

There's luck in odd numbers. — Samuel Lover

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against. — Damon Runyon

Short Likelihood Quotes

  • Stress tolerance is the best indicator of a person’s likelihood of success. — Andrew Tate
  • The more energy required, the less likely it is to occur. — James Clear
  • There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom — Robert Andrews Millikan
  • Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him — Sun Tzu
  • When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40. — Shane Warne
  • One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed. — Diane Arbus
  • Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  • If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. — Annie Dillard
  • Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success. — Mark Spitz
  • What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition. — Samuel Richardson

Life Hood Quotes

Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood. — Ace Hood

If you’re from the hood and you black, you’re going to have some type of music in your life. — 21 Savage

The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life. — Wyclef Jean

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas. — Lil B

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. — Ralph Ellison

A visit to the hood through a record, or through a video, or through a film, is a lot safer than actually visiting the people in real life. It became a business model. It became a revenue engine that, you know, you can get to the hood without ever going there. — Chuck D

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing. — June Singer

Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where there can be more progress towards Buddha-hood, toward love, and wisdom, and helping all being etc. So that's the great value of it. — Robert Thurman

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk. — Steven Tyler

Life Like Quotes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Moving Forward In A Positive Direction - Colin StuckertAlbert Einstein

Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun - Hafez

Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun — Hafez

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on. — Pharrell Williams

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. — Dennis Wholey

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. — Woody Allen

Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. — Liam James

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise! — Maya Angelou

You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life. — Brendon Urie

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More Likelihood Quotes

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married). — Phyllis Schlafly

A study of more than 41,000 metformin users between the ages of 68 and 81 concluded that metformin reduced the likelihood of dementia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, frailty, and depression, and not by a small amount. — David Sinclair

The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates. — Jerome Powell

The Grand Slam Offer only becomes valuable once the prospect perceives the increase in likelihood of achievement, perceives the decrease in time delay, and perceives the decrease in effort and sacrifice. — Alex Hormozi

Our goal as marketers and business owners is to increase the value of the dream outcome and its perceived likelihood of achievement, while decreasing the time delay of achievement and the effort and sacrifice one has to put in to get there. — Alex Hormozi

If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization of diplomatic relations is very slim. — Koichi Haraguchi

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives. — Stephen Covey

I take a look at the entire derivatives market, it’s $1 quadrillion. I believe there’s an affordable likelihood of this being a $250 trillion asset class which is a 100X from right here, which might be the most important progress of any asset class in all of historical past within the shortest time period. — Raoul Pal

The longer workers are unemployed, the greater the likelihood that their skills will erode and workers will lose attachment to the labor force, permanently damaging the economy's dynamism and potential output. — Jerome Powell

There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so. — Nick Cooper

We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday. — Peter Block

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. — Sun Tzu

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%! — Indra Nooyi

If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on what a future buyer might pay, then it's an investment. If an asset's value is totally dependent on the amount a future buyer might pay, then its purchase is speculation. — Seth Klarman

We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November. — Michele Bachmann

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare. — Sigmund Freud

The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something. — Eric Jensen

I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue. — Charles Darwin

Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it. — Nir Eyal

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it. — Peter Elbow

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen. — Lawrence Taylor

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed. — Dwight Schultz

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing. — Rod Serling

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all. — Tim Ferriss

Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work. — John Eliot

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again. — Chris Murphy

Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again. — Tony Robbins

Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact. — David A. Bednar

Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously. — Nir Eyal

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged. — Charles Kimball

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work. — Peter Guber

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent! — Brian Tracy

After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions. — Ron Paul

Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject atoms to any specified influences such as light or heat, magnetic fields or electric currents. — Otto Robert Frisch

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt. — Francois FeNelon

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life. — John Walters

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not. — Thomas J. Sargent

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small. — Ann Veneman

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