#predict

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#future #only #predict #shape #way

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#i #like #sets #sitting #unpredictability

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible. ↗

— David Korten

#i #make #need #plausible #prediction

Predictions are preposterous. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#preposterous

I'm a lousy predictor of the future. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#i #lousy #predictor

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand. ↗

— Diet Eman

#no-regrets #surrender #unpredictability-of-life #diet

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#people #predictability #surprise #art

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#life #stories #uncertainty #unpredictability #change

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. ↗

— Earl Warren

#computers #e-mail #individuality #internet #prediction

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ↗

— Nate Silver

#knowledge #prediction #self-knowledge #uncertainty #wisdom