Quotes About Prediction

we see patterns in the world where there are none because we don't understand just how un-random-looking random sequences can be.

It turns out that if you ask people, the day before the election, whether they intend to vote, you can increase the probability of their voting by as much as 25 percent!

When people have a hard time predicting how their choices will end up affecting their lives, they have less to gain by numerous options and perhaps even by choosing for themselves. A nudge might be welcomed.

Earth's atmosphere at different times in history." You can't predict the past, Dad. "You can if you don't know it yet.

But there is, of course, no freedom. There are only ancient prophecies that scry the seeds of time and say which will grow and which will not.

there was very little doubt in my mind that the world was headed for grief.

His mother's position was that his father could come back and live with them again as soon as he grew up, but not until. His father had predicted that his mother would kiss his ass before he'd ever walk through that door again. Both of these, Lin had concluded, were highly unlikely events.

Rachel bit her lip. I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? The Pythagorean theorem shall be problem two... Gods, that would be embarrassing.

You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.

No good news awaits I warned you right at the start Turn away, reader

Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope. Dr. Bernie Siegel found he could predict which of his cancer patients would go into remission by asking, "Do you want to live to be one hundred?" Those with a deep sense of life purpose answered yes and were the ones most likely to survive. Hope comes from having a purpose.

Many had predicted that Robert would devote himself to Mrs. Pontellier when he arrived. Since the age of fifteen, which was eleven years before, Robert each summer at Grand Isle had constituted himself the devoted attendant of some fair dame or damsel. Sometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman.

All systems of divination, like music itself, work through patterns.

You never know ahead of time what something is really going to be like.

Antes de que ocurra nunca sabes cómo va a ser una cosa realmente.

The funny thing about destiny is that you can't predict it, and you can't prevent it. - Leslie

A theoretical chance. Atlas Brookings may make a big thing of it, but it's less than two percent. That's all. Their intake of unlifteds is less than two percent.

His voice sounded the same, now so familiar that I could follow the beat in my head, predicting each change of tone, each note of accentuation.

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

adivinaba Elene.

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Like a red morn, that ever yet betoken'dWrack to the seaman, tempest to the field.