Most of us have roughly the same ability to predict the future. The trouble is, being right as often as the average forecaster won't produce superior results. — Howard Marks
Past performance is the best predictor of success. — Jim Simons
The best way to predict the future is to create it. — Peter Drucker
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. — Eric Hoffer
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay
Projections only matter if you can hold conditions constant from the moment of your prediction. — Peter Attia
Short Prediction Quotes
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat. — Conor McGregor
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades. — Hermann Goring
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. — John Von Neumann
Revolutions are like earthquakes: they are always being predicted, and sometimes they come. — Stephen Kotkin
Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan. — Simon Sinek
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get. — Brian Tracy
It’s Impossible to Predict the Growth of Knowledge. — Naval Ravikant
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The cause of your habits is actually the prediction that precedes them. — James Clear
The laws of physics can’t predict the future. — Naval Ravikant
Prediction Image Quotes
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently. — Paul Smith
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. — Charles Francis Richter
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances.
Wrong Prediction Quotes
A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market. — Vijay Kedia
Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction. — Edward Tenner
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The best way to predict the future, is to create it.
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. — Albert Einstein
The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong — Brad Feld
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. — John Langdon-Davies
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. — David Douglass
People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong. — Jane Jacobs
My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love. — Daniel Tammet
Football Prediction Quotes
Sometimes as a man, you fear what you can't see. Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what's going to happen. Tomorrow's not promised. The only thing you can do is live your life, hope for the best, continue to have faith, believe in yourself. — Michael Vick
I never make predictions and I never will. — Paul Gascoigne
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments. — Peter York
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with. — Brett Favre
I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond. — Jim Jarmusch
I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction. — Archie Macpherson
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions. — Rodney Atkins
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future. — Cristiano Ronaldo
He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical. — Didier Drogba
Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that. — Larry Coker
Weather Prediction Quotes
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? — Thomas Sowell
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations. — Freeman Dyson
Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted. — David Petersen
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
There will continue to be competition for supremacy in outer space. The satellites are not just there to beam back our TV pictures, or to predict the weather: they also spy on other countries, to see who is moving where and with what. — Tim Marshall
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. — Albert Einstein
It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci. — Antoine Lavoisier
Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather. — Dan Rather
One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. — Albert Einstein
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon. — Ruth Rendell
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act. — David Suzuki
Stock Market Prediction Quotes
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months. — Irving Fisher
Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections. — Warren Buffett
Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested — Peter Lynch
So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it. — Paul R. Ehrlich
Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. — Steve Jobs
You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts. — Daniel Kahneman
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. — Mara Liasson
I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences. — Warren Buffett
I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership. — Warren Buffett
The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions. — Paul Samuelson
Tomorrow Prediction Quotes
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J. Peter
Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow? — Mikhail Bulgakov
The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids. — Jerry Brown
You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time. — Lemar
I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out. — Charles Yu
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. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions — Douglass North
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams. — Richard Paul Evans
Predicting The Future Quotes
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development. — Yuri Gagarin
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — William Arthur Ward
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. — Ulysses S. Grant
I believe it's hard to predict the future. It's not that hard to predict the present. In other words, it's not that hard to understand what's going on today. — Howard Marks
My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers. — Wernher Von Braun
Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment. — Nicole Kidman
It does not presume to predict the future from the past. — Naval Ravikant
The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus. — William S. Burroughs
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. — Daniel Kahneman
The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly. — Steve Kerr
Don't Predict Quotes
An evolutionary perspective predicts that most diets and fitness programs will fail, as they do, because we still don’t know how to counter once-adaptive primal instincts to eat donuts and take the elevator. — Daniel Lieberman
I don’t like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric. — Elon Musk
You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks. — Lou Gerstner
Acceptance doesn't mean predictability. Sex isn't always for 11 at night - - it's also 'meet at a hotel room at noon'. What you feel during dating can exist at home, if you don't suffocate it. — Esther Perel
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one. — Isaac Asimov
I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited. — Richard Thaler
G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything. — Laszlo Bock
You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now? — Jim Butcher
Predictability Quotes
Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so. — Alex Jones
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. — Igor Sikorsky
It's a thin line between paper and hate,
Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come,
Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs. — Nas
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed. — Leo Tolstoy
History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence. — Camille Paglia
When the world is predictable you need smart people.
When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people. — Henry Mintzberg
God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds. — Giordano Bruno
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. — Brian Tracy
That’s what science is, that whole complicated story about how the particles are moving faster. It’s not about trends and predictions; it’s about explanations. — Naval Ravikant
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi
You Can't Predict Life Quotes
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. — Raymond Chandler
So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict. Which is great. That's what you want art to be. You want it to be alive and to actually have a life in the way it's viewed. — Steve Zissis
Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. — Ivana Milicevic
But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you. — Lisa Kleypas
Digital technologies mainly have an analytical power. Now we're going into a predictive power, and your company is very much involved in it. But then the next step could be to go into prescriptive mode, which means you do not even have to have elections anymore, because we know what the result will be. — Klaus Schwab
I call the phenomenon of transforming unusable raw materials into usable resources resource mastery. Just as designated experts ignored fossil fuels’ massive climate mastery benefits when predicting climate catastrophe, they also ignored fossil fuels’ massive resource mastery benefits when they predicted resource catastrophe. — Alex Epstein
As the ice melts and the tundra is exposed, two things are likely to happen to accelerate the process of the graying of the ice cap. Residue from the industrial work destined to take place will land on the snow and ice, further reducing the amount of heat-reflecting territory. The darker-colored land and open water will then absorb more heat than the ice and snow they replace, thus increasing the size of the darker territory. Some climate models say the Arctic will be ice-free during the summer by the end of the century; a few predict this much sooner. — Tim Marshall
How do we pick up on a signal that can neither be heard nor be defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it. A space so free of the normal overpacked condition of our minds that it functions as a vacuum. Drawing down the ideas that the universe is making available. — Rick Rubin
For anybody who’s tracking actual predictive power, The Fringe will surprisingly keep being the place where reality is spotted first. — Bret Weinstein
I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers. — Marlee Matlin
Extrapolation is usually right, but not valuable, and predictions of deviation from trends are potentially profitable but rarely right. So far, macro-economic forecasting doesn't represent the path to superior investments. — Howard Marks
A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace. — David Steindl-Rast
Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers. — Linda Darling-Hammond
Extreme predictions are rarely right, but they're the ones that make you big money. — Howard Marks
The utility of money changes over time, and it does so in a fairly predictable way. Starting sometime in your twenties, your health very subtly starts to decline, causing a corresponding decline in your ability to enjoy money. — Bill Perkins
Biden's cognitive impairment has outlived its usage for his puppet masters. Mark my words. they will use that to sideline him soon. — Vivek Ramaswamy
As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve. — Jennifer Doudna
Bitcoin can be best understood as distributed software that allows for transfer of value using a currency protected from unexpected inflation without relying on trusted third parties. In other words, Bitcoin automates the functions of a modern central bank and makes them predictable and virtually immutable by programming them into code decentralized among thousands of network members, none of whom can alter the code without the consent of the rest. This makes Bitcoin the first demonstrably reliable operational example of digital cash and digital hard money. — Saifedean Ammous
To get an idea of what your time is worth, take a moment now to think about how much you work and the income you get from your effort. Once you know your hourly rate you can identify situations where buying back some of your time is a bargain and other situations where you want to be selling more of your time. As you get used to thinking this way, I predict that you will often be surprised at how much you can gain. — Edward O. Thorp
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