Quotes About Likelihood

There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

Fear of harm ought to be proportional not merely to the gravity of the harm, but also to the probability of the event.

The defeat revealed the downside of the new mode of presidential leadership: by elevating personality over party, it diminished the likelihood of a president being able to win himself a compliant Congress.11

even if I were informed, what's the likelihood of changing anyone's opinion, especially a couple of strangers'? If my own little mind is nailed shut, why wouldn't theirs be?

All conspiracy-spotting should start from the assumption that even an almighty cock-up is always more likely than a complex conspiracy.

Until they study the general population and find out what the likelihood of CTE in a soccer mom is versus an NFL brain, we really have no baseline to rate this study off of.

There's a 30% chance that it's already raining.

Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.

Any chance beats no chance.

That is the thing about infinity: it takes things that are otherwise very unlikely and makes them all inevitable.

open possibility (within the plane) to increased probability (in the plateau) to specific actuality (at the peak). As

How do people make the judgments and how do they assign decision weights? We start from two simple answers, then qualify them. Here are the oversimplified answers: People overestimate the probabilities of unlikely events. People overweight unlikely events in their decisions.

The higher the rate of covid-19 in a community, the more likely any one individual you come into contact with has the virus and the riskier your interactions become.

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

Anything is possible," I said. "But most things are unlikely.

Anything is possible but most things are unlikely.

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.

Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

Does the occurrence of one impossible thing increase the likelihood of a second.

There is the possibility, even the likelihood, of self-approving and extravagantly error-prone behavior on the part of those closely associated with money.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

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