Quotes about Prediction
I can see when people's minds are wrong. You can see when a footballer's going to miss a penalty.
— Phil Taylor
Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
— Wayne Gretzky
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been
— Wayne Gretzky
A true Master Player plays as thought the game is already in the past, according to a script whose every detail is known prior to the play itself.
— James Carse
What can be explained can also be predicted, if one knows the initial events and the laws covering their succession.
— James Carse
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
— Charles Spurgeon
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.
— AW Tozer
Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
— Mark Twain
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.
— Charlie Munger
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
— Abraham Lincoln