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While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen Hawking
Mathematics
Women
People
Physics
Better
Behavior
Understanding
Universe
Too
Else
Tell
Solve
Tick
Particularly
Because
Makes
Equations
How
Began
Than
May
Human
Human Behavior
Anyone
Anyone Else
Predicting
While
Far
Us
Much
Use
Many
I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.
Michael Johnson
People
Strong
Will
Feeling
Tell
Strong Feeling
About
Something
Always
Lot
Get
Predicting
Really
Predicting the market is always tough.
Alex Berenson
Tough
Market
Always
Predicting
It can be easy to get swept up into catastrophizing the situation once your thoughts become negative. When you begin predicting doom and gloom, remind yourself that there are many other potential outcomes.
Amy Morin
Thoughts
You
Yourself
Negative
Become
Situation
Other
Once
Outcomes
Easy
Potential
Remind
Gloom
Up
Begin
Get
Doom
Predicting
Your
Swept
Many
Resilient people recognize that no matter how bad the circumstances are, their situation could always be worse. They don't allow themselves to exaggerate how terrible their problems are, and they don't run around predicting how much worse things are going to get. Instead, they view failure with an accurate perspective.
Amy Morin
Failure
People
Matter
Problems
Perspective
Situation
Worse
Circumstances
Recognize
Run
Bad
Exaggerate
Could
Allow
Instead
Terrible
Around
Always
How
How Much
Accurate
Get
Going
Predicting
Themselves
Much
View
Things
Resilient
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.
Bernard Williams
Death
Saying
People
Criticism
Philosophy
Would
Would-Be
Student
Since
Days
Were
Been
Replaced
Literary
Literary Criticism
Predicting
Century
Then
Sociology
Last
I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.
Bokeem Woodbine
Success
Disappointment
Will
Thought
Met
Cold
Projects
Stay
Only
Involved
How
Been
Lot
Get
Predicting
Gained
Really
Should
Notoriety
Grasp
Film
Away
Career
I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
People
Phone
Win
Random
Phone Calls
Generator
Know
Calls
Lottery
Get
Going
Want
Predicting
Clue
Engaged
Who
Actually
Number
Numbers
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.
Conor Oberst
You
Science
Think
Philip
Clarke
Tale
Come
Like
Know
Science Fiction
Arthur
Handmaid
Fiction
Predicting
Interesting
Much
Really
Margaret
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
David Brin
Science
Happy
Berlin Wall
Islam
Fall
Other
Those
Berlin
Record
Some
Rise
Cases
Had
Failures
Also
Science Fiction
Hand
Wall
Fiction
Predicted
Predicting
Right
Fundamentalist
Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.
Eric Maskin
Science
Valuable
Important
Plenty
Only
Also
Sciences
Goal
Lot
Predicting
Prediction
Explaining
Explanation
Much
Certainly
I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.
Fred Durst
Future
Time
Long
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Stopped
Predicting
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
J. William Fulbright
Obligations
Legal
Law
Behavior
Reciprocal
Those
Insofar
Observed
Provides
Stability
Order
Predicting
Us
Means
International
International Law
Whom
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.
James Surowiecki
Work
Best
Election
Will
President
Markets
Bad
Outcomes
Record
Excel
Horse
Results
Like
Supreme
Nominee
Supreme Court
Track
Track Record
Court
Go
Lots
Historical
Depends
Information
Predicting
Whim
Available
Races
Next
Who
Things
It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be.
Janet Yellen
Great
Confidence
Will
Market
Fed
Reactions
Predicting
Decisions
Hard
At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
Jennifer Carpenter
Best
Age
Young
Outcomes
Find
Take
Because
Lot
Very
Trying
Going
Pitfalls
Young Age
Wherever
Information
Predicting
Avoided
Route
Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want.
Julia Holter
Saying
People
Think
Thinking
Way
Unpleasant
Something
Gives
Implication
Like
Know
Accessible
Want
Predicting
Really
Need
My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer.
Juliette Lewis
Future
Path
Kids
Brother
Self
Footage
Had
He
Part
Like
Because
Were
Camera
Up
Endless
Predicting
Video
Video Camera
Younger
Us
Growing
Growing Up
The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.
Kevin Plank
Best
World
Merchants
Predicting
Next
Cool
Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else.
Lauren Weisberger
Else
Analyzing
Everywhere
About
Examining
Write
Writers
Obsessed
New
Like
Festival
Reporters
York
Just
New York
Information
Predicting
Who
Media
Here
Imagine
I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.
Leonard Mlodinow
Future
You
Weather
Predict
Our
Our Lives
Correct
Find
Able
Longer
Term
Like
Look
Likely
Course
Short
Predicting
Short-Term
Might
Your
Less
Lives
Investing is about predicting the future, and the future is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, the only way you can do better is to assess all the facts and truly know what you know and know what you don't know. That's your probability edge.
Li Lu
Future
You
Better
Edge
Way
All The Facts
Unpredictable
About
Only
Facts
Investing
Know
Truly
Probability
Predicting
Your
Inherently
Therefore
Assess
Every actor, director, and producer want all their films to do well. So you choose the role carefully, listen to the script, and work hard. But there is no way of predicting whether it will be a hit or a flop.
Mohanlal
Work
You
Director
Work Hard
Will
Every
Carefully
Films
Way
Well
Hit
Role
Listen
Want
Predicting
Whether
Script
Producer
Hard
Choose
Actor
Flop
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
Nate Silver
Behavior
Somebody
Experiment
Think
Observing
Participating
Also
Predicting
Should
Who
I don't want to get into predicting how Judge Gorsuch would vote on the Supreme Court as a Justice Gorsuch. But I will say that those of us who've seen him in court as a judge, those of us who have worked with him as I have on a appellate rules committee, understand that this is a man who brings independence and integrity to the job.
Neal Katyal
Man
Justice
Vote
Integrity
Judge
Will
Job
Independence
Seen
Say
Rules
Those
Would
Supreme
Him
Supreme Court
Court
Understand
How
Get
Committee
Want
Predicting
Us
Worked
Who
Brings
I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.
Paul Krugman
Success
Politics
Great
Change
Think
Tried
Had
Great Success
Nor
Any
Predicting
Social
Social Change
Really
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