Top 100 Predict Quotes
#1. The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict a hundred years ahead of time whether there is a likelihood of an impact with Earth.
Rusty Schweickart
#2. With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.
Bryan Cranston
#3. Sometimes, none of us can predict life's outcomes. That doesn't mean we stop living or doing what we know in our hearts is the right thing.
Colleen Charles
#4. I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.
Robert Duvall
#5. History didn't always predict the future. You had to live it one day at a time to find out what happened next.
Wade Kelly
#6. With certainty, I can predict that there will never be a cure to cancer. The only hope for any of us is to concentrate on cause and prevent the misery.
Richard Diaz
#7. At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
Edmund Phelps
#8. 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.
Malcolm McLaren
#9. People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!
Wendy Starland
#10. 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.
Ben Bernanke
#11. I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.
Thomas Piketty
#12. It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
Antoine Lavoisier
#13. You can't predict the future. It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions - forward and backward - and what happens here and now changes them both.
Nicola Yoon
#14. 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.
Jay Asher
#15. 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.
Bill Nye
#16. Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen
Fred Trueman
#17. 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.
Mario Balotelli
#18. Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.
Janet Yellen
#19. The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.
Steve Kerr
#20. Our actions and responsibilities are our own; what later returns to either haunt or applaud us is neither possible to predict nor always completely understandable.
Patricia Highsmith
#21. The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
Freeman Dyson
#23. Through the gamut of life we struggled for control, for a means to fashion the world around us, an eternal, hopeless hunt for the privilege of being able to predict the shape of our lives.
Steven Erikson
#24. 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.
Kevin Hearne
#25. It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
Emily Blunt
#26. Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.
John Katzman
#28. 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.
Euripides
#29. Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Ian Hacking
#30. 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.
Hermann Hesse
#32. I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.
Peter Lynch
#33. Your path is your path, for better or worse. It is what it is. You don't know what's going to happen in life. You've got right now and that's it. Can't change the past, can't predict the future.
Sabrina Paige
#34. Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.
Amit Kalantri
#35. There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#36. You know that you can't predict and you can't expect that you should have predicted. You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.
Robert B. Parker
#37. Love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#38. 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.
Aaron Ross
#39. I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
Suzanne Collins
#40. 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.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#41. So now i know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'de rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone i can't predict.
Valerie Frankel
#42. I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.
Warren Buffett
#43. The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.
Mordechai Vanunu
#44. Predict the actions of every conductor from New Orleans to Cincinnati, would
Harper Lee
#45. 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?'
Bill Gates
#46. You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
Emma Donoghue
#47. ... 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.
Molly Antopol
#48. If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born
#49. Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.
Tom Lehrer
#50. I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
Lauren Willig
#51. 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.
Salar Kamangar
#52. If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
Frank Gehry
#53. [On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
Katharine Whitehorn
#54. No matter what challenges you are faced with,or the opinions people have of you,rejection in and of itself from others is not a valid system to predict your future.
Scott Allan
#56. I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.
Donna Summer
#57. I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.
Leonard Nimoy
#58. 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.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#59. Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.
Brett Favre
#60. Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.
Milton Friedman
#61. I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.
Carrie Vaughn
#62. Charlie Wind once told me we must keep the animals on Earth, for they know everything: how to keep warm, predict the storms, live in darkness or blazing sun, how to navigate the skies, to organize societies, how to make chemicals and fireproof skins. The animals know the Earth as we do not.
Jean Craighead George
#63. Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life.
T. Harv Eker
#64. 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.
Jason Statham
#66. Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.
Orit Gadiesh
#67. Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond ... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.
John Browne, Baron Browne Of Madingley
#69. There's never enough information ... That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.
Orson Scott Card
#70. 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.
Dick Cheney
#71. But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you ... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.
Lisa Kleypas
#72. Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
Kevin Kelly
#73. 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.
Yasmine Galenorn
#74. 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.
Stephen Hawking
#75. I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.
Jason Mraz
#76. As we settle into 2013, I predict this: We'll see companies that promote this shift from private ownership thrive. More people will be able to access things they simply don't need to own, and they'll save money and live better, cleaner, green lives doing it.
Lynn Jurich
#77. Typology is the study of how OT historical persons, events, institutions, and settings function to foreshadow, anticipate, prefigure, and predict the greater realities in the new covenant age. The
Stephen J. Wellum
#78. A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
Frederik Pohl
#79. Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
Ayn Rand
#80. 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.
Noomi Rapace
#81. The funny thing about destiny is that you can't predict it, and you can't prevent it.
- Leslie
Kathy Love
#82. You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
Carlisle Floyd
#83. I'm going to close out this book with some bad news. One day you're going to die, and you can't predict when that will be. All I can guarantee is that it will be sooner than you expect.
Roosh V
#84. It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
Peter Lynch
#85. I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
Charles De Gaulle
#86. 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?
Helene Hanff
#87. As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.
Richard P. Feynman
#88. I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
Rudy Rucker
#89. The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.
Charlie Munger
#90. The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.
Joe Meno
#91. Reuters was completely accurate that I am concerned about the level of the market. But I also made it clear on the conference call (and I believe as Reuters reported it), that it is almost impossible to predict what a market will do in the short term. There are too many variables.
Carl Icahn
#92. 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.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
#93. I knew an old lady in the Highlands once, who said the lines in your hand don't predict your life; they reflect it.
Diana Gabaldon
#94. There's a company in Boston called Ginger IO that has a smartphone app that can predict, two days before you get depressed, that you're going to get depressed.
Rick Smolan
#95. In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.
Warren Buffett
#96. You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
Robert Barry
#97. 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.
Jason Aldean
#98. Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.
Warren Buffett
#99. Gottman has proven something remarkable. If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent.
Malcolm Gladwell
#100. The number one joy indicator, the one thing that will predict whether someone feels joy in their life or not, is the practice of gratitude.
John O'Leary
