P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Predict the predictable, it sounds something strange and difficult, but so far is stupid. To predict the predictable is the stupid thing ever done by human kind.”
“Predictability and great design are not friends.”
“Predictability brings about security.”
“Predictability can lead to failure.”
Source: The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
“Predictably, the national broadcaster—a viper’s nest of socialists, tree-huggers and ugly, barren females—had seized on the survey, exhuming one of its bleeding-heart ideologues to moan about funding cuts to education.”
Source: The Life to Come
“Predicting a downturn is not critical. The important thing is what you do when a significant downturn happens.”
“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”
“Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.”
“Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.”
“Predicting the future isn’t what you should focus on, hard work is where your concentration should lie, your future will be built even if you don’t judge.”
“Predicting tornadoes is like drawing straws. Blindfolded. With mittens on.”
Source: The Darkest Skies
“Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.”
“Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing. You will surprise yourself with what you're capable of and the incredible things you go on to do. Find the people who love and believe in you - there will be lots of them.”
“Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation.”
Source: The Selfish Gene
“Prediction is a low form of journalism.”
“Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future”
“Prediction is difficult, especially the future.”
“Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.”
“Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.”
Source: On Intelligence
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.”
“Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.”
“Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.”
“Predictions are preposterous.”
“Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.”
“Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.”
“Predictions have an expiry date. Action is needed before predictions expire.”
Source: Step up for Leadership in Enterprise Data Science & Artificial Intelligence with Big Data : Illustrations with R & Python
“Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.”
“Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.”
Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature
“predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Predisposition is not predestination.”
Source: Defending Jacob: A Novel
“Predition is risky, especially of the future.”
“Predlošci prezentacija omogućuju zaposlenicima organizacije da uniformiranim pristupom u komunikaciji s publikom doprinose vidljivosti brenda, ali i jačanju korporativne kulture.”
Source: Klik na prvu
“Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever the f - k I want, because no one's going before you, and if no one's coming after you, I'm just going to be the freakiest of all freaks!”
“Preeminența morții celuilalt domină ființa întru moarte proprie la nivelul cotidianității. Moartea este un eveniment «bine cunoscut», care este de fapt ținut la distanță - suntem informați asupra sa, dar nu ne trezește interesul existențial. Crezul obișnuit al ființei cotidiene întru moarte sună astfel: «până la urmă, cândva, o să murim și noi, dar, până una-alta, asta nu ni se întâmplă nouă». Aproape am putea să spunem că moartea nu există în cotidianitate, în ciuda deceselor celorlalți (care nu ne afectează). Viața socială este în așa fel construită pentru a ignora moartea: este un antrenament sugestiv de a uita pe termen lung ideea de moarte. Spunând «cândva, vom muri și noi» dăm de înțeles că «deocamdată, așa ceva nu ne privește». Avem impresia că aceste tehnici de marketing producătoare de falsitate izvorăsc din frica de moarte care, asemenea răului din superstiții, trebuie ținută în afara razei privirii/gândirii/rostirii.”
Source: Existenţialismul astăzi
“Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.”
“Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.”
“Preemptively interwoven into this ingeniously crafted existence is everything that we need to be everything that we are.”
“preety girls behave best when you ignore them”
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
“Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.”
Source: The Name of the Star
“Prefer being rejected at your new standard than being accepted at your old one.”
Source: Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story
“Prefer de o mie de ori o existenţă dramatică, torturată pentru destinul ei în lume şi chinuită de cele mai consumatoare flăcări interioare, decât un om abstract, frământat de probleme abstracte care nu angajează fondul subiectivităţii noastre. Dispreţuiesc în această gândire absenţa riscului, a nebuniei şi a pasiunii. Cât de fecundă este o gândire vie, pasionată, în care lirismul circulă ca sângele în vine!”
Source: On the Heights of Despair
“Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.”
“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
“Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.”
“Prefer one another's need over your own.”
Source: WELCOME TO YOUR MARRIED FOR A PURPOSE REBOOT FACILITATOR’S GUIDE: A handbook to assist Married for a Purpose Certified Coaches in leading personal one-on-one Reboot Retreats for Married Couples.
“Prefer peace rather than preaching perfection.”
Source: Slate