Probability Of Success Quotes

#1. Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward - or the
fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48

Nick Ortner

#2. You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

Samantha Bee

#3. If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

Jim Highsmith

#4. I don't mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

Vinod Khosla

#5. The greatest risk is not taking any.

Tim Fargo

#6. Be sure to find a way every day to rock your own world and to pat yourself on the back, the front, or whatever distance you can reach. In all probability 'nobody does it better' and self-appreciation is a serious key to self-success. Kathy Golden

Kathy Golden

#7. You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.

Epictetus

#8. You can read books on stuff all day long, but until you get out there and just do it, if you want to start playing, and you want to make some music, then go out and play. Go find yourself a venue and play, even if it's in your home. Just play every day. You win the fight by fighting.

Christian Kane

#9. The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell
and paints the inside walls sky-blue
and blocks up the door
and says he's in heaven.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. Writing a journal article combines all the elements that deter motivation: The probability of success is low; the likelihood of criticism and rejection is high; and the outcome, even if successful, isn't always rewarding.

Paul J. Silvia

#11. At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#12. First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

Henry Maudslay

#13. The moment you orgasm, I want you to cry out husband, okay?

Chance Carter

#14. The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

James Madison

#15. Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

Kobo Abe

#16. The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

Rensis Likert

#17. Doing comedy for a living is, in a lot of ways, like a pony and a camel trying to escape from the zoo. It's a ridiculous endeavor and has a low probability of success, but most importantly, it is way easier if you're with a friend.

Amy Poehler

#18. You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.

Chris Murray

#19. For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

#20. You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World

Bob Ross

#21. Motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

Judith M Bardwick

#22. Every month that begins on a Sunday has a Friday as the 13th.

Auliq Ice

#23. Success is not a probability visiting us once in a while..Success is a HABIT which can be acquired, cultivated, polished, practised and achieved on a daily basis !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#24. It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone

Leigh Hunt

#25. I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.

Richard A. Clarke

#26. Customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions, evaluating solutions that all sound the same, and struggling to achieve the value they expect, when experience has shown them that far too many solutions come packaged with a high degree of risk and a low probability of success.

Jeff Thull

#27. Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.

Richard Arnold Epstein

#28. The greater the speed of our news, the slower the speed of our time.

Kanishk Tharoor

#29. Ava's not my date. I came stag."
"Stag. You. Why?"
"So my date wouldn't get offended when I wanted to dance with you," he says.

Cynthia Hand

#30. Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

Douglas MacArthur

#31. Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

Vinod Khosla

#32. Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

David R. Ellis

#33. I don't know if it's the economy, but finding work as a spiritual guru is really hard. Maybe I should grow my hair out.

Dov Davidoff

#34. Unfortunately, their approach was based on the traditional dating paradigm, which I had previously abandoned on the basis that the probability of success did not justify the effort and negative experiences.

Graeme Simsion

#35. There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#36. The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

Philip Morrison