Top 63 Predictor Quotes
#1. Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.
Peter Blair Henry
#2. Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
Brian Tracy
#3. The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and the quantity of practice time.
Michael Griffin
#4. ARTICLE THAT SAID in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption.
Donald Miller
#5. The best predictor of future events is probably past events.
Andre Agassi
#6. The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.
Gian Fulgoni
#7. Research has found that loss of bone density may be an even better predictor of death from atherosclerotic disease than cholesterol levels.
Atul Gawande
#8. But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
Daniel Goleman
#9. The best meta-emotion predictor of wellbeing is a variable known as nonjudge.
Emily Nagoski
#10. May we all be human: beautiful, stupid, temporal, endless.
And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself: "Past performance is not a predictor of future results.
Joseph Fink
#11. The best predictor of a child's security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents made sense of those childhood experiences.
Daniel J. Siegel
#12. The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question 'Did the professor respect you?
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#13. 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
#14. In modern times, making family meals happen is hard, but family meals are a better predictor of a child's overall healthy eating, happiness, and success than the socioeconomic status of the parents or extra-curricular activities.8,9
Katja Rowell
#15. Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.
Gordon Livingston
#16. Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
Barry Diller
#17. Your ability to copy is the biggest predictor of the success that you'll have in life".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#18. The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
Polly Toynbee
#19. One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
Elizabeth Banks
#20. most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself - or will use military violence against another country - is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it's violence against females.
Gloria Steinem
#21. First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking was a better predictor of their happiness than what they were doing.
David Michie
#22. Researchers have found that the way people feel about the stress in their lives is a far more powerful predictor of their general health - whether they're more likely to be depressed, anxious, smoke cigarettes, or overeat - than any other measure.
Brigid Schulte
#24. In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.
Steven Pinker
#25. If you want to foresee the behavior of someone, their personality is a better predictor than their intelligence.
Luigina Sgarro
#26. The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.
David Brooks
#27. We talk to a team, they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will go on to be successful.
Sam Altman
#28. The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don't accomplish any more than the eight-hour days. Overtime is a wash.
Tom DeMarco
#29. If we're talking about brain performance, the best predictor of brain speed is aerobic capacity - how well you can run up a hill is very strongly correlated with brain speed and cognitive shifting ability,
Hal Elrod
#30. the best predictor of whether we are happy or not is our social relationships.
Meik Wiking
#31. The predominant quality of successful people is optimism ... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
Brian Tracy
#32. the strongest predictor of who got the money was not the person's credentials or the content of the pitch. The strongest predictors of who got the money were these traits: confidence, comfort level, and passionate enthusiasm.
Amy Cuddy
#33. The past is a good predictor of the future only when conditions in the future resemble conditions in the past. And what works for a firm in one context might not work for another firm in a different context.
Clayton M Christensen
#34. Hal's internal fault predictor could have made a mistake." "It's more
Arthur C. Clarke
#35. The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
Ryan Holiday
#36. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
Joe Navarro
#37. God is unchangeable changer, unadjustable adjuster, unmoveable mover, unpredictable predictor, unstoppable stopper, uninvisible visible, and wonderful wonder
Osunsakin Adewale
#38. I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end
Mike Tyson
#39. When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
Tom Rath
#41. The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.
James Sallis
#42. The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.
Gretchen Rubin
#43. Early on, the best predictor of a relationship doesn't depend on the couple's social graph at all; for the first year or so of dating, the optimal method is how often they view each other's profile.
Anonymous
#44. Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.
Rick Perlstein
#45. ...the most reliable predictor of long-term marital success was a pattern in which the wives, in nonoffensive, clear ways, communicated their needs, and husbands willingly altered their behaviors to meet them.
Terrence Real
#46. The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.
Elizabeth Warren
#47. Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.
Wendy Kopp
#48. The best predictor of success is a sense of resiliency, grit, capacity to fail and get up. If you're prevented from feeling discomfort of failure, you have no sense of how to handle those things at all.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
#49. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.
Helen Fielding
#50. I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
Daniel Goleman
#51. Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
Bruce Feiler
#52. The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist: her father, brother, husband or even her son. Terrorism becomes a bit of a family business.
Mia Bloom
#54. Albert Ellis: "The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour". Apart
Marcus Tomlinson
#55. When predicting homosexual prejudice from fundamentalism and the full RWA scale, both predictors have positive beta weights (each is associated with increasing homosexual prejudice), but fundamentalism is the weaker predictor (.19 vs. 43
Anonymous
#56. But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences.
Jonathan Haidt
#57. RESEARCH INDICATES THAT A WOMAN'S INTUITIVE SENSE OF WHETHER OR NOT HER PARTNER WILL BE VIOLENT TOWARD HER IS A SUBSTANTIALLY MORE ACCURATE PREDICTOR OF FUTURE VIOLENCE THAN ANY OTHER WARNING SIGN.
Lundy Bancroft
#58. Amazingly, their belief in their own ability was an even stronger predictor of job performance than the actual level of skill or training they had. More
Shawn Achor
#59. I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.
Sydney Pollack
#60. Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.
Daniel Kahneman
#61. I believe that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior when it comes to religious fanaticism.
Sam Brower
#62. Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#63. Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.
Lee Ellis
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