Predictors Quotes

#1. The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

Marilyn Jager Adams

#2. 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

#3. One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle. Put

John Medina

#4. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce.

Michael Pollan

#5. One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.

Daniel H. Pink

#6. Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!

Mark Lepper

#7. Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

Mike Huckabee

#8. 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

#9. Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

Brene Brown

#10. We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

James Altucher

#11. Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. dairy intake is "one of the most consistent dietary predictors for prostate cancer in the published literature," and those who consume the most dairy have double to quadruple the risk.

T. Colin Campbell

#13. One of the greatest predictors of performance in school turns out to be the emotional stability of the home.

John Medina

#14. Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

Mark Batterson

#15. SAT scores play an important role in admissions, even though they are poor predictors of college performance.87 This benefits affluent students, who are far more likely to enroll in private test preparation and take the test multiple times to boost scores.

Elizabeth A. Armstrong

#16. A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School
found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annual
income.
from Eugene

Greg Egan

#17. Dreams are very important. They direct your path and serve as predictors for your future.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#18. Two of the greatest predictors of success are the ability to say hello and the ability to say goodbye.

Robert J. Braathe

#19. If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most.

Frank Herbert

#20. The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.

Aristotle.

#21. My wife has said that a bitter, sour Christian
is one of Satan's greatest trophies - and she's right.

Billy Graham

#22. Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

James Surowiecki

#23. The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.

Bhagat Singh

#24. All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

Baltasar Gracian

#25. There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious.

Chrissie Wellington

#26. It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

Paul Bettany

#27. It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

John Steinbeck

#28. We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

James Huneker

#29. That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Mary Astell

#30. Getting adequate sleep is a sign that the world doesn't need your attention for seven to nine hours each day. It keeps spinning as usual in its orbit. Who wants to admit that?

Laura Vanderkam