#unlikely

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#clearly #creating #cutting #families #future

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful. ↗

— Michael Porter

#rivals #same #successful #then #thing

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#faults #first #may #motor #motor car

I believe in the uncommon, the unusual and unlikely, even the miraculous.   I believe in nearly all things except impossibilities. That I can't fathom.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#determination #dreams #goals #impossibility #miracles

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so. ↗

— Billy Joel

#find #irs #least #legitimate #musicians

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#average #boy #bus #bus driver #discouragement

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. ↗

— Michael Korda

#best #deeper #enough #failure #find

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely. ↗

— Brian Molko

#finding #hand #happens #hate #hopefully

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers. ↗

— Gordon Moore

#area #careers #coming #degree #excitement