Quotes About Prediction

Predate your telling me, T.T.

what Rosnovski's next move would be.

You confuse me with something that is in you. I will not predict how you want to use me.

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

What an ocean of boredom might be saved if science could but give us a barometer foretelling us our changes of temperament! How much more to our comfort we could plan our lives, knowing that on Monday, say, we should be feeling frivolous; on Saturday "dull to bad-tempered.

But who wants to be foretold the weather?  It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

Ptolemy Horoscope

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

Unlike her parents, and her other relatives, her grandmother had not admonished Ashima not to eat beef or wear skirts or cut off her hair or forget her family the moment she landed in Boston. Her grandmother had not been fearful of such signs of betrayal; she was the only person to predict, rightly, that Ashima would never change.

She knew that the word providence meant foresight, the future beheld before it was experienced.

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.

I think I'll finish Cruz faster than I finished Barao. Cruz has got a crazy style. But I think I'm going to finish him quicker than I finished Barao.

When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.

I never try to predict what will happen to any project, ever. There are so many factors. Does the public like the subject matter, the way you handle it?

I feel like I can submit Khabib, but feel like I'm going to stop him. I don't know how it's going to happen, but I'm either going to knock him out or I'm going to submit him. I'm going to finish Khabib Nurmagomedov.

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

Back in 2005 and 2006, I argued as forcefully as I could, in letters to clients of my investment firm, 'Scion Capital', that the mortgage market would melt down in the second half of 2007, causing substantial damage to the economy.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

Can one come 2 conclusions, Before the question is conceived?

My astrologer predicted a year of successful enterprise and good fortune. So what went wrong? Had there been some ghastly beaureaucratic astral mix up?

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.