#predict

When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#go #i #left #me #people

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

#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#life

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!" ↗

— Bill Bradley

#cannot #common #enables #escape #imagination

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#average #challenges #fairly #flow #higher

We are talking about predictable recurring flooding. ↗

— Robert A. Brady

#flooding #predictable #recurring #talking

The best way to predict the future is to create it. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#best way #create #future #predict #way

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. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#country #down #drive #future #lights

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

— Robert Duvall

#enjoy #hope #i #left #legacy

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. ↗

— Charles Vest

#advanced #agency #been #bit #come