Probability Quotes
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
B. F. Skinner -
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
Aristotle
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Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
Brian Tracy -
I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
Damon Lindelof -
We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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 -
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler -
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!
Tobias Smollett
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A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.
Jesse Livermore -
If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
J. D. Salinger -
The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
Brian Tracy -
You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.
Drew Houston -
All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.
John Arbuthnot -
I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
Vinod Khosla
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and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard -
Failure to meditate in the morning increases the probability of chaos throughout the day.
Joe Sacco -
When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.
Edgar Fiedler -
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
Vinod Khosla -
The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.
Bart Kosko
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Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
Abraham de Moivre -
You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.
Oprah Winfrey -
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
Anthony Stafford Beer -
I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
Pythagoras