Top 100 Forecast Quotes
#1. He who aims to forecast fog, will have mist.
Logan
#3. Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.
Eric Maskin
#4. If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
Nate Silver
#5. Do not forecast where the temptation will come; it is the least likely thing that is the peril. In the aftermath of a great spiritual transaction the "retired sphere of the leasts" begins to tell; it is not dominant, but remember it is there, and if you are not warned, it will trip you up.
Oswald Chambers
#6. Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,.
John Roberts
#7. In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.
Bee Wilson
#9. I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Winston S. Churchill
#10. It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
Mark Twain
#11. Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
Michael J. Gelb
#12. We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.
Alan Greenspan
#13. I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It's a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: 'Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.
Bill Bryson
#14. I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the more distant the forecast time. I'm a strong believer in chaos theory.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#15. As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
Nathan Wolfe
#16. The forecast is
we kiss goodbye and never hello
all kisses are then parting kisses
Saul Williams
#17. The forecast today is love all around.
R. Kelly
#18. Overcast does not always forecast rain neither does difficulty always forecast failure.
Kevin A. McKoy
#19. Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.
Dean Williams
#20. There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
Germaine Greer
#21. Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did
Irving Kahn
#22. The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#23. It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
Iman
#25. Dad loved computer games, and I would sit beside him for hours with graph paper, drawing out plans to try and forecast the moves he should make while he worked the computer controller.
Rhianna Pratchett
#27. Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.
Jerome Groopman
#28. You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
Nate Silver
#29. The forecast for tonight is alcohol, low standards, and poor decisions.
Laura Kreitzer
#30. He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.
Colson Whitehead
#31. There are endless unknowns, and no forecast of a century can be either complete or utterly correct.
George Friedman
#33. Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning
George Carlin
#35. It is very important to have a correct socio-economic development forecast and plan, in which inflation being a vital investment factor should be the key indicator
Tatyana Golikova
#36. How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
Teresa Of Avila
#37. The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.
Emanuel Celler
#38. Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
Edmund Hillary
#39. The brighter the sunlight, the worse it affects them," said Einstein.
"So we got to pay more attention to the weather forecast," said DogNut. "Cloudy with a chance of zombies.
Charlie Higson
#40. It follows that they never understood Reginald, who came down late to breakfast, and nibbled toast, and said disrespectful things about the universe. The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast.
Saki
#41. 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.
DJ Patil
#42. It's the little deceptions that no one catches that are going to dissolve it all someday. We'll look at clocks and we won't believe the hands. They'll forecast sun but we'll pack our slickers anyway.
Walter Kirn
#43. It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task. Claims
Daniel Kahneman
#45. I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or a the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen to-day.
Jerome K. Jerome
#47. The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.
George Osborne
#48. Today's Terror Forecast has predicted a day of low-to-moderate unrest for East Jerusalem with mild political pressure moving inward from the west.
Lee Konstantinou
#49. By 2060, India's economy is projected to be larger than China's because of its greater population growth. India is forecast to produce about one-quarter of world GDP from 2040 through the rest of this century.
Jeremy J. Siegel
#50. I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#51. No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
Jamie Dimon
#52. Our mental models aren't reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather. But, as we know all too well, sometimes the forecast says rain and, boom, the sun comes out. The tool is not reality. The key is knowing the difference.
Ed Catmull
#53. The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
Walter Wriston
#54. I will be able to forecast which side will be victorious and which defeated.
Sun Tzu
#55. Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.
John Steinbeck
#56. Every milestone in the history of the company, even when forecast with heaps of hoopla, was ultimately played out according to some secret timeline of geologic tedium, so that it was drained of all interest and drama well before it took place and afterward went all but unnoticed.
Thomas Ligotti
#57. If you ever do have to heed a forecast, keep in mind that its accuracy degrades rapidly as you extend it through time.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#59. Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
Nate Silver
#61. 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.
Willard Scott
#62. The most important thing is to forecast where customers are moving, and be in front of them.
Philip Kotler
#63. People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#64. I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.
Iyanla Vanzant
#65. Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast
Warren Buffett
#66. I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.
John L. Casti
#67. Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
George Carlin
#68. I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news.
Tim Harford
#69. The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.
Piers Corbyn
#70. A research division develops marketing material for its deal makers. We have no policy position. If you have a policy position you can't possibly forecast.
George Friedman
#71. Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
Vladimir Lenin
#72. The prophet is always at the mercy of events; nevertheless, I venture to conclude this book with the forecast that at least half the illnesses of mankind
will disappear once our food supplies are raised from fertile soil and consumed in a fresh condition.
Albert Howard
#73. A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#74. You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#76. It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#77. The New York Times, with what was threatening to become a customary lack of prescience, forecast that it would never be a serious competitor for radio because "people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it."34
Bill Bryson
#78. Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
Salman Rushdie
#79. One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#80. It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.
Charles Rangel
#81. Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.
Matthew D. Heines
#82. All right, kids. We're going to a party where they don't like us very much. Everyone know what they're doing? (Sin)
Not a clue, but I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by a light rain of guys and flayed skin. (Kish)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#83. Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.
Eric Ries
#84. Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course
Larry David
#85. In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.
Emily Procter
#86. It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#87. Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
Barry Ritholtz
#88. There is only one more thing for me to say: Please help make my forecast wrong. Together we could create a much better world.
Jorgen Randers
#89. The pioneers researched for this book take a simpler approach: Budgets are established only if some forecast is needed to inform an important decision.
Frederic Laloux
#90. Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.
John Muir
#91. My own forecast? How about stressful with a hundred percent chance of freaking out.
Jenny B. Jones
#92. Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?
Jeremy Clarkson
#93. I'm pretty sure Jo couldn't talk about the weather without somehow including a threat. Forecast today: cloudy with a chance I'll kick your ass.
Eliza Crewe
#94. My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.
Samuel West
#95. But I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by light rain of guts and flayed skin.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#96. The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.
Steve Jurvetson
#97. The forecast was cloudy with extended periods of consciousness, followed by a stitch in my side and a sense of impending doom swelling to a symphony of demolition
Edward Morris
#98. To be the other woman
is to be a season
that is always about to end,
when the air is flowered
with jasmine and peach,
and the weather day after day
is flawless,
and the forecast
is hurricane.
Linda Pastan
#99. Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
Oswald Chambers
#100. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again. Hari
Isaac Asimov
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