Top 247 Likelihood Quotes & Sayings

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.

When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.

I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small.

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

I totally think that the likelihood upon this whole galaxy and universe, we are the only ones... I don't think we are.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.

As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our likelihood of getting our need met! Even if we think it. And secondly, because it increases the likelihood of violence. That's why I'm suggesting any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Say the need! Learn a need-consciousness.

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.

We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

The likelihood of success drops dramatically when you expand, especially in the services business. And there's a lot of capital that goes into opening another office.

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.

If we stay focused on data and the real issues, we can tailor our inventions to enhance public health and safety while decreasing the likelihood of racial discrimination.

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

In the fashion business, there weren't any rules. In fact, the better you were at creating something new, the greater the likelihood you would be successful.

One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high.

The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.

I believe the public therefore expect the justice system to focus on rehabilitation to reduce the risk of subsequent offending - and the likelihood of them becoming a victim of crime.

There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

Well, I hate to tell youbut if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

The world is a safer and better place that the United States is the strongest military power on earth. The stronger you are, the less likelihood you'll ever have to use it.

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion.

Once we get beyond Mars, which formed from the same stuff as Earth, the likelihood that life is similar to what we find on this planet is very low.

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.

American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.

Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.