Quotes About Likelihood

Worst-case scenarios are often low-probability events. They're even less likely to happen if you strategize how to prevent them from happening, and how you'd deal with them if they did.

Maximum improbability equals maximum possibility.

a greater probability of one thing happening over another. In a sense, technical analysis allows you

The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

the likelihood of getting cancer depends in large part on how often a person experiences injury or certain types of injury. This is just math. More injury means more cell division and, simply, more opportunity for dangerous mutation to occur.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. —Aristotle, Poetics, XXV

We don't 'see' odds – how likely the thing is – we 'see' consequences. That's what people would mean if they were to say 'picture the risk'. They mean picture the worst that can happen.

Curiously he was a modest man. And as his life dream became less and less likely Swingle became, as they say, merely philosophical—that is rueful, not embittered.

He had no great advice to offer to his clients about this fact. He just wanted them to understand the likelihood that they would be incinerated shortly.

Those were certainly better odds

Those were certainly better odds than Candace had ever had before.

One of the things I always tell the police and families is that while everything is possible, not all things are probable. You can't waste a lot of investigative effort on an extremely unlikely scenario; you have to stay with what makes sense.

overriding principles can be useful here in identifying the likelihood of metastases. If you have a high Gleason score (8 or greater), or if the PSA level begins to rise early after radiation therapy, or if the PSA level has a rapid doubling time, it is more likely that you have metastases than a local recurrence, and in this case, you should seek systemic therapy (see chapter 13).

An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.