Quotes about Predict

Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day. Votes: 3

I never predict anything, and I never will. Votes: 1

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. Votes: 1

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Votes: 1

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Votes: 1

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. Votes: 1

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate. Votes: 1

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Votes: 1

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness. Votes: 1

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve. Votes: 1

We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. Votes: 1

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at. Votes: 1

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. Votes: 1

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things. Votes: 1

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. Votes: 1

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict. Votes: 1

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment. Votes: 1

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct. Votes: 1

There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid. Votes: 1

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe. Votes: 1

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do. Votes: 1

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. Votes: 1

We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances. Votes: 1

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly. Votes: 1

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true. Votes: 1

Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad. Votes: 1

Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism - and for this, they need us. Votes: 1

All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside of that, you're not sure really what's going to happen. It's a funny game, but I think that's why I love it. You never know, one day to the next; you could go shoot 62, and the next day you're going to shoot 78, and you can't predict it. Votes: 1

Stop trying to predict... Votes: 0

You just cant predict baseball Votes: 0

You cannot predict the future. Votes: 0

You can't predict the future, Votes: 0

We can't predict the future. Votes: 0

I can't predict the future. Votes: 0

We can't predict the future. Votes: 0

I can't predict the future. Votes: 0

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict. Votes: 0

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes Votes: 0

I don’t predict a nonexisting future. Votes: 0

Historians predict the past for a living. Votes: 0

You can't prevent what you can't predict. Votes: 0

Any damn fool can predict the past. Votes: 0

I never try to predict the market. Votes: 0

Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option Votes: 0

I can never predict what's going to happen. Votes: 0

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect. Votes: 0

It is difficult to predict, especially the future. Votes: 0

Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future. Votes: 0

You can only predict things after they have happened. Votes: 0

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking. Votes: 0

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society. Votes: 0

If you want to predict the future create it. Votes: 0

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it. Votes: 0

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny. Votes: 0

Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people. Votes: 0

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly. Votes: 0

I've never been able to predict the future of anything. Votes: 0

The future is uncertain, and therefore I can't predict it. Votes: 0

You cannot predict the future, but you can create it. Votes: 0

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked. Votes: 0

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it. Votes: 0

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it. Votes: 0

A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen. Votes: 0

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness. Votes: 0

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet. Votes: 0

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning. Votes: 0

If I could predict the trends, they would already be there. Votes: 0

The best way to predict your future is to create it Votes: 0

I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen. Votes: 0

You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it Votes: 0

If you can predict the future, you can change the past. Votes: 0

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Votes: 0

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. Votes: 0

You can predict anything in this world but not the nature's behaviour Votes: 0

Life is uncertain. We can never predict when hard times shall strike. Votes: 0

You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax. Votes: 0

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. Votes: 0

I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl. Votes: 0

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. Votes: 0

Individual differences in testosterone level predict very little about differences in aggression. Votes: 0

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Votes: 0

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance. Votes: 0

The only way you can predict the future is to build it. Votes: 0

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future. Votes: 0

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready. Votes: 0

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict. Votes: 0

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not. Votes: 0

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them. Votes: 0

I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened. Votes: 0

No expert can predict the heavyweight division. Every punch can make the decision. Votes: 0

Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes, Votes: 0

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. Votes: 0

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. Votes: 0

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past. Votes: 0

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Votes: 0

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it. Votes: 0

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen. Votes: 0

In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws. Votes: 0

We must prepare students for a future we can neither describe nor predict. Votes: 0

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past. Votes: 0

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections. Votes: 0

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy. Votes: 0

You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more. Votes: 0

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments. Votes: 0

I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump. Votes: 0

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history Votes: 0

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. Votes: 0

Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen Votes: 0

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake. Votes: 0

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly. Votes: 0

When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict allits inevitable consequences. Votes: 0

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure. Votes: 0

We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future. Votes: 0

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past. Votes: 0

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. Votes: 0

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable. Votes: 0

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact. Votes: 0

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself. Votes: 0

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic. Votes: 0

Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people. Votes: 0

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do. Votes: 0

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future... Votes: 0

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky. Votes: 0

A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath. Votes: 0

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. Votes: 0

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to. Votes: 0

We took blood samples and we can predict if someone is doing meditation or not. Votes: 0

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it! Votes: 0

The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen. Votes: 0

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. Votes: 0

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. Votes: 0

If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around. Votes: 0

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict. Votes: 0

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present. Votes: 0

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Votes: 0

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D. Votes: 0

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. Votes: 0

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past. Votes: 0

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. Votes: 0

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. Votes: 0

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable. Votes: 0

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. Votes: 0

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did. Votes: 0

If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. Votes: 0

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death. Votes: 0

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when. Votes: 0

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent. Votes: 0

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think. Votes: 0

Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict. Votes: 0

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me. Votes: 0

My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences. Votes: 0

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. Votes: 0

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays. Votes: 0

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. Votes: 0

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave. Votes: 0

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average Votes: 0

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment. Votes: 0

The bеѕt wау tо predict уоur future іѕ tо create it. Votes: 0

If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead. Votes: 0

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave Votes: 0

No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play Votes: 0

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return. Votes: 0

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. Votes: 0

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly. Votes: 0

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers. Votes: 0

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I'll predict that right now. Votes: 0

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own. Votes: 0

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . . Votes: 0

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future. Votes: 0

Timing is easy to predict through the movement of the stars as they give the propensity of pure potential. Votes: 0

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf Votes: 0

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control? Votes: 0

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right. Votes: 0

Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present. Votes: 0

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. Votes: 0

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. Votes: 0

You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children. Votes: 0

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care. Votes: 0

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced. Votes: 0

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict. Votes: 0

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it. Votes: 0

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake. Votes: 0

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. Votes: 0

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen. Votes: 0

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for. Votes: 0

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it. Votes: 0

It is very difficult to predict what other humans will do, and considerably more difficult to anticipate the behaviour of aliens. Votes: 0

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future. Votes: 0

For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself. Votes: 0

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected. Votes: 0

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. Votes: 0

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history Votes: 0

Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next. Votes: 0

I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can't fix a time for it. Please don't predict it for me. Votes: 0

My job is not to predict everything that might happen in the future, but to address what we can do today. Votes: 0

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not. Votes: 0

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it. Votes: 0

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Votes: 0

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions Votes: 0

With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house. Votes: 0

I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space. Votes: 0

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. Votes: 0

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is. Votes: 0

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is. Votes: 0

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says Votes: 0

You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference. Votes: 0

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. Votes: 0

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer. Votes: 0

I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me. Votes: 0

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. Votes: 0

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. Votes: 0

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic. Votes: 0

I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic. Votes: 0

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades. Votes: 0

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can't predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws. Votes: 0

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react. Votes: 0

We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes. Votes: 0

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them. Votes: 0

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do. Votes: 0

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect. Votes: 0

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict. Votes: 0

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well. Votes: 0

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War) Votes: 0

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. Votes: 0

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past. Votes: 0

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s. Votes: 0

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise. Votes: 0

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story. Votes: 0

It's hard to predict what kinds of people are going to enjoy it [film]. And what people ain't. That's the movies. You never know. Votes: 0

My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict. Votes: 0

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. Votes: 0

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things"”and we aren't very good at it. Votes: 0

I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society. Votes: 0

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy. Votes: 0

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts. Votes: 0

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea. Votes: 0

People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur. Votes: 0

We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes. Votes: 0

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people. Votes: 0

If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Votes: 0

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past. Votes: 0

If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything. Votes: 0

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. Votes: 0

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. Votes: 0

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers. Votes: 0

...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled. Votes: 0

One can't predict the future, that maybe our training and their fighting capabilities are improving and we are going to make some progress in destroying ISIS. Votes: 0

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest. Votes: 0

So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict. Votes: 0

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear. Votes: 0

What you reject today, you could accept tomorrow. And what you accept today, you could reject tomorrow. Never say never unless you can predict the future. Votes: 0

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish. Votes: 0

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with. Votes: 0

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go. Votes: 0

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way. Votes: 0

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order. Votes: 0

It is hard to predict what I want in a partner. It's more about what the universe brings to me, and what I feel is right. Votes: 0

It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events. Votes: 0

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age? Votes: 0

The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future. Votes: 0

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present Votes: 0

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict. Votes: 0

With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary. Votes: 0

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly. Votes: 0

When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that. Votes: 0

They never predict anything fun," Granuaile answered. "Just once I'd like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin' Camaro on a game show. Votes: 0

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process. Votes: 0

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air. Votes: 0

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict. Votes: 0

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things. Votes: 0

And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill. Votes: 0

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter. Votes: 0

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when. Votes: 0

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction. Votes: 0

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased. Votes: 0

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future. Votes: 0

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. Votes: 0

I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns. Votes: 0

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion. Votes: 0

More than ever, we are dealing with the history of the masses, and no history of individuals. Less than ever, it is possible to predict the near future ... Votes: 0

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made. Votes: 0

If we can predict, then we have observed enough to know that what we are observing does not just happen randomly; we have noted a pattern of regularities. Votes: 0

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite! Votes: 0

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen. Votes: 0

You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe. Votes: 0

Unless we can predict the future, we shouldn't be worrying about things that haven't happened yet. We can place these thoughts in God's hands then let them go. Votes: 0

We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. Votes: 0

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking. Votes: 0

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson Votes: 0

Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict. Votes: 0

The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place. Votes: 0

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it. Votes: 0

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. Votes: 0

When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more like a race to see who came first. Votes: 0

Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process. Votes: 0

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security. Votes: 0

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it. Votes: 0

All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past. Votes: 0

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. Votes: 0

The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market. Votes: 0

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that. Votes: 0

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. Votes: 0

You can never, ever predict the curve balls it throws you. So just roll with it, and don't forget to enjoy the moment and soak it up. Don't just Instagram it. Votes: 0

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. Votes: 0

I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while. Votes: 0

Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned. Votes: 0

It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere. Votes: 0

If you choose the right people for the group, it goes a little bit differently. At the same time, you can't always predict what's going to happen. Success might change people. Votes: 0

Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you'll find them. Votes: 0

Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. Votes: 0

I can't predict the future but I'm pretty much sure of how I want it to be, how so? Because I have a dream and zero reasons not to achieve it. Votes: 0

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle. Votes: 0

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. Votes: 0

You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict. Votes: 0

I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and locate them quickly is from satellites. Votes: 0

If one could always predict the future, this person would soon be the saddest being on earth, for it cannot be surprised nor could it stop thinking of making a difference. Votes: 0

I am proud that my humble attempts to predict Tuesday's prices on Monday are an indispensable component of our society. By buying low and selling high, I create harmony and freedom. Votes: 0

It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational. Votes: 0

It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events. Votes: 0

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power. Votes: 0

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind. Votes: 0

An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate. Votes: 0

I cant predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video. Votes: 0

The lasting legacy of the Cooter Smash is that I'm the first to know when it's going to rain. That's right. I both sing and predict the weather with my hoo hoo. Votes: 0

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it. Votes: 0

I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video. Votes: 0

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy. Votes: 0

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control. Votes: 0

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict. Votes: 0

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now. Votes: 0

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions. Votes: 0

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. Votes: 0

We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you. Votes: 0

We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these big final ends to tell us what we ought to do. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'. Votes: 0

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another. Votes: 0

The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are some times, when you can predict weather well for the next 15 days. Other times, you can only really forecast a couple of days. Sometimes you can't predict the next two hours. Votes: 0

You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown. Votes: 0

Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment. Votes: 0

I predict, that if they can't stop [Donald] Trump in the primary process, they will make an effort to stop him at the convention. I mean, Governor [Mitt] Romney has pretty much telegraphed this. Votes: 0

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail. Votes: 0

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them. Votes: 0

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead. Votes: 0

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man. Votes: 0

Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people. Votes: 0

Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge Votes: 0

I predict, that if they can't stop [Donald] Trump in the primary process, they will make an effort to stop him at the convention. I mean, Governor [Mitt] Romney has pretty much telegraphed this. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad. The longer it takes, the worse it will get. Votes: 0

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that. Votes: 0

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict. Votes: 0

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it's what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can't predict. Votes: 0

Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work. Votes: 0

While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction. Votes: 0

[That is] hard to predict, [it] could be either September or December [2016] I personally think the sooner the better because that would be a good sign that the Fed believes the economy is significantly stronger. Votes: 0

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world. Votes: 0

Each to choose their own paths in life, regardless of education, no one can predict the outcome, then one goal in front of him. Anything that can be based on the values of what's coming Votes: 0

Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear. Votes: 0

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?' Votes: 0

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws. Votes: 0

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. Votes: 0

He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death. Votes: 0

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. Votes: 0