Predictions Quotes

• Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.

  

  Karl Haushofer
  • Darkness
  • Analysis
  • Penetrate

• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Accountability
  • Trash
  • Predictions

• Predictions are preposterous.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Future
  • Predictions

• This is an extremely good result. I am delighted to have polled well above predictions. I go into the next round with real momentum.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Good
  • Real
  • Result

• When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

  

  William of Occam
  • Two
  • Theory
  • Competing

• Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Evidence
  • Predictions
  • Procedures

• I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

  

  Alan Cox
  • People
  • Rest
  • Marvel

• The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Action
  • Statistics
  • Predictions

• If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Fans
  • Predictions
  • Crazier

• most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Economy
  • System
  • Doctors

• Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

  

  Bill Gaede
  • Performing
  • Experiments
  • Explaining

• You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Drowning
  • Predictions
  • Hermione

• I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Money
  • Fight

• Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.

  

  David J. Skorton
  • American
  • Thoughtful
  • Respected

• It's very difficult to make predictions about the Iranian politics, but given the fact that Ahmadinejad was elected with a very clear purpose - to improve the economy - and he's failed.

  

  Gary Sick
  • Predictions
  • Politic
  • Iranian

• All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Wrong
  • Buildings
  • Predictions

• A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

  

  Bill Gaede
  • Believe
  • Dog
  • Individual

• I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

  

  Charles Rolls
  • Made
  • Reader
  • Flight

• The confirmations of novel predictions resulting from bold conjectures are very important in the falsificationist account of the growth of science.

  

  Alan Chalmersun
  • Growth
  • Predictions
  • Falsificationist

• Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

  

  Benjamin Stillingfleet
  • Built
  • Prayers
  • Predictions

• Your courage in the grove surprised me. Surprise is a reaction I had all but forgotten. I have seen enough that I alway know what to expect. I assess the odds of various outcomes, and me predictions are never thwarted. before you were finished confronting the revenant, the potion failed. I saw the artificial bravado leave you. Your demise was certain. Yet, despite my certainty, you removed the nail. Had you been full-grown, a seasoned hero of legendary renown, well-trained, armed with charms and talismans, I would have been deeply impressed. But for a mere boy to preform such a feat? I was truly surprised.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Courage
  • Forgotten
  • Surprised

• We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

  

  George Jackson
  • Future
  • Action
  • Predictions

• Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Special
  • Predictions
  • Pundits

• Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall come to the brink of a precipice, or be stopped by a wall; must not this to him seem very admirable and surprising? He cannot conceive how it is possible for mortals to frame such predictions as these, which to him would seem as strange and unaccountable as prophesy doth to others. Even they who are blessed with the visive faculty may (though familiarity make it less observed) find therein sufficient cause of admiration.

  

  David Berman
  • Knowledge
  • Blessed
  • Strange

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