Predicting People Quotes

#1. If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

Jeff Gannon

#2. I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.

J. Robbins

#3. If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.

Walter Lippmann

#4. In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don't think I like reality very much. Principally, I don't understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.

Shirley Jackson

#5. I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

Freeman Dyson

#6. What is the truth of a truth?

Jerry Zak

#7. People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

Paul Krugman

#8. People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.

Henry Blodget

#9. For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Annie Lennox

#10. I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#11. I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#12. The sea, as Euripides says in one of his plays about Iphigenia, washes away the stains and wounds of the world.

Oscar Wilde

#13. The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.

Alex Pentland

#14. While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Stephen Hawking

#15. People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

Ray Bradbury

#16. Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

Mitch Hedberg

#17. The worst way to know if people would pay to use a product or if they would use it repeatedly is ask them directly. Humans are very bad at predicting their future behavior. In

Tomer Sharon

#18. We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

Charlie Munger

#19. I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

Larry Niven

#20. It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.

Haruki Murakami

#21. We can rob the unrobbable and fool the unfoolable. We know how to take an incredibly large task and break it down to manageable pieces, then deal with each of those pieces. That day,

Brandon Sanderson

#22. I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

Michael Johnson

#23. Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

Annie E. Clark

#24. People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

Enoch Powell

#25. To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.

Michio Kaku

#26. I won't apologize for evolving past your comfort zone.

Unknown

#27. I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

Frank B. Kellogg