Scoring a goal is the best thing in the world because it's the only thing you can't control or predict.
Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.
In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.
You never know: there is a lot of movement in football. You can never predict where you're going to play.
In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it.
Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.
Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.
That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.
None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.
It's hard to predict what kinds of people are going to enjoy it [film]. And what people ain't. That's the movies. You never know.
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.
The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.
If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested
So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.
Form is difficult. You can't predict form, it is up and down for any player.
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.
Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
Individual differences in testosterone level predict very little about differences in aggression.
Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.
In Texas, they're very proud of being cowboys. It's a different atmosphere - a lot more agricultural. I can't, living here in Jersey, predict who they are. It's called respecting the community.
People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.
If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the breakdown of dialogue between leaders and citizens.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
It's Twenty20, anything can happen in the format. It's very difficult to predict and pick a favourite team in this format.
G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.
I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.
No one can predict the future, but what I do know is that myself and my team work hard every day to make sure that my vision, my sound, and my brand reach their full potential.
As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
I don't predict knockouts. The outcome and the performance I am looking for is a victory, nothing less than a victory.
Each to choose their own paths in life, regardless of education, no one can predict the outcome, then one goal in front of him. Anything that can be based on the values of what's coming
If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.
The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.
You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.
Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.
Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
I never try to predict what will happen to any project, ever. There are so many factors. Does the public like the subject matter, the way you handle it?
Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life.
I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.
Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.
I have a hard time with films that I feel like I can predict every twist or turn they take from the moment I start reading the script.
I'm a take-me-as-l-am person, and all the rest is water under the bridge. You can't change yesterday any more than you can predict what's gonna happen tomorrow.
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized to regard them as part of the present order of Nature.
Well, 'Diablo III' went from no players to over 10 million in a very short period of time. It's really difficult to predict that type of response.
This is why sports will always be the greatest of dramas; the most exciting entertainment known to man. Nobody can predict the outcome and the script is ever in flux.
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