#predict

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else? ↗

— Tom Berenger

#did #doing #else #i #i think

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

— Jeff Lindsay

#dexter #dexter-morgan #failure #morgan #pessimism

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable? ↗

— Phil Donahue

#intimacy #men #millions #millions of men #only

I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#coming #congress #extra #friends #here

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago. ↗

— Fred Durst

#future #i #long #long time #predicting

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#difficult #especially #future #prediction #very

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. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#appropriate #be prepared #cannot #cost #deal

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#first #how #last #last year #life

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

#berlin #berlin wall #cases #failures #fall

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#bear #broader #brought #companies #consequences