Predict Quotes

Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system ... Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said. — Michael Lewis

But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. — Anonymous

Human beings, however, were different from apples and oranges: The flavor of the peel did not reliably predict the taste of the pulp. — Dean Koontz

The best way to predict your success is to work for it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My job is not to predict everything that might happen in the future, but to address what we can do today. — Wolfgang Schauble

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain. — Russell Smith

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict. — Alan Greenspan

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think. — Aimee Bender

Does not ... the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death. — Artie Lange

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War) — Charles De Gaulle

For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.' — Christina Hendricks

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness. — Jason Mraz

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. — Ayn Rand

My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict. — Stephen Kinzer

With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house. — Diahann Carroll

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. — John Von Neumann

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. — Michael Phelps

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave. — Jennifer Connelly

Life is full of disappointments, but we have to take some risks. None of us can predict the future, for only God knows what's to come. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny. — Clare Oliver

The best way to predict your future is to create it — Peter F. Drucker

You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more. — Julieanne O'Connor

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go. — Dag Heward-Mills

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky. — James Vincent McMorrow

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when. — Steve Case

Predict the actions of every conductor from New Orleans to Cincinnati, would — Harper Lee

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable. — Wallace Shawn

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present — Paul Saffo

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history — Muhammad Ali

We can't predict what's going to happen, but having love is worth the risk. — Nina Crespo

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — Arthur C. Clarke

One thing we can easily predict is that anything worth accomplishing will take time, and the bigger our goals are, the more time they will take. — Greg Forster

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right. — Jeff Lindsay

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did. — Cordelia Fine

When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences. — Eraldo Banovac

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic. — Steve Wozniak

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. — Vladimir Lenin

Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future. — Chris Guillebeau

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says — Andy Stanley

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. — Ian Bremmer

Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society. — Ezra Taft Benson

Sometimes it's hard to predict who will make a person happy. But in the end, that's what matters. — Kody Keplinger

The number one joy indicator, the one thing that will predict whether someone feels joy in their life or not, is the practice of gratitude. — John O'Leary

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. — Daniel Kahneman

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do. — Nathan Myhrvold

I have not the foresight to predict everything, Rogue. — Elizabeth Carlton

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers. — Curt Weldon

I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now. — Cecilia Beaux

We must prepare students for a future we can neither describe nor predict. — David Warlick

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen. — Sergei Bubka

Steve Jobs: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Walter Isaacson

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it. — Daniel Gilbert

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things. — Nicola Yoon

If you want to predict the future create it. — Peter Drucker

It is very difficult to predict what other humans will do, and considerably more difficult to anticipate the behaviour of aliens. — James L. Cambias

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it. — Alan Kay

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict. — Joe Meno

Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time? — Stephen Hawking

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past. — Harry Browne

Well," she said, "I'm no weatherman, but I predict you'll be getting several inches tonight. — Sylvia Day

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well. — Emma Donoghue

Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes — Charles Francis Richter

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return. — Thomas Piketty

If you want to predict a person's behavior, identify his or her incentives. Leo — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. — Carlisle Floyd

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist. — Damien Rice

Stop trying to predict ... — Warren Buffett

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. — Anthony Liccione

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. — John M. Gottman

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future. — Lars Ulrich

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. — Errol Morris

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake. — Nate Silver

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average — Stephen Hawking

From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather. — Natalie Dormer

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care. — Robert Barry

Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people. — Andy Stanley

Sometimes, none of us can predict life's outcomes. That doesn't mean we stop living or doing what we know in our hearts is the right thing. — Colleen Charles

Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired. — Lee Child

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy. — Charlie Huston

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve. — Marc Benioff

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays. — Alex Pareene

Once we get predictable, we get vulnerable. — Deyth Banger

G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don't predict anything. — Laszlo Bock

There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. — Erin Morgenstern

A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen. — J.G. Ballard

Vicky cost the taxpayers sixty-five million dollars, and she couldn't predict the time an hour from now. I — J.A. Konrath

Love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking. — Rob Brown

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not. — Barry Pepper

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning. — Stephen Hawking

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it. — Amit Kalantri

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air. — Aaron Spelling

Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen — Fred Trueman

If the world could predict who the villains and heroes were going to be, the crisis wouldn't exist in the first place." They — Deirdre Gould