Quotes About Prediction

One of the greatest technicians of all time was a man named W. D. Gann (1878-1955). He had tremendous success predicting market moves much in advance. Legend has it that he occasionally sent notes to 'The Wall Street Journal', which accurately predicted tops and bottoms in grain markets months ahead of time.

Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they're going to hit the ball. I will. I'll call my shots.

I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.

I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.

What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is important, however, is to not be so far off the mark that visions of the future run counter to the very nature of war and render American forces unable to adapt to unforeseen challenges.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.

My little bro Kendrick Lamar. I've been saying it for the times even when I was on Warner when everybody knew him as K-Dot. I used to tell people all the time, watch when K-Dot step out the box, he's going to be a problem.

It's not that we can predict bubbles - if we could, we would be rich. But we can certainly have a bubble warning system.

I was one of the only Democrats that was warning just how popular Trump would be.

Are artists the canaries in the mine, warning of the coming explosion before anyone else? It's hard to look at the world before 1914 and not wonder if they somehow felt a catastrophe was bearing down on them and their societies.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

But inflation or deflation can be forecast to some extent. The real risks are those that lie hidden beneath the veneer of "business as usual.

Sois el verdadero marchamo que precinta el envío de los días felices. Ya están ahí las golondrinas y las golondrinas nunca se equivocan, decimos al veros, pero el buen tiempo se retasa y entoces pensamos que os habéis adelantado por abnegación, por dar fe a los endermos y covalecientes haciéndoles suponer tiempo bueno y seco.

(C)(P) IN THE COMING YEARS I PREDICT THAT MEN WILL FACE A MUCH GREATER PREDICAMENT FROM THOSE WOMEN WHO ARE ALWAYS SMARTER TO USE THEIR -IPHONES- AND TRACK THEIR EVERY MOVE OF INFIDELITY. MOST MEN ARE JUST CLEVER, BUT NOT WISE!

the commissioners presciently warned that "if the American government decided to support the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, they are committing the American people to the use of force in that area, since only by force can a Jewish state in Palestine be established or maintained."82 The commission thereby accurately predicted the course of the subsequent century.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.