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• Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

  David Dixon

  Oil, Unexpected, Terrible

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• Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Talking, Psychics, Development

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• Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice.

  David Letterman

  Party, Years, Ice

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• The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.

  Alex Pentland

  Intelligent, People, Groups

  "Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter". Book by Alex Pentland, January 30, 2014.

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• That's the thing about golf. In a team sport, when a team's on a roll, you have a little bit more data and comfort in predicting whether the roll's gonna continue, whether the team is playing well and who the opponent is. But the golf course is the opponent. It changes every round in terms of wind and weather and so forth. And your game is never the same two days in a row. It's almost impossible to handicap and predict.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sports, Team, Golf

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking.

  Seth Klarman

  Morning, Weekend, Reality

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• People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

  Enoch Powell

  Mistake, People, Trouble

  John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”

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• The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.

  Rodney Atkins

  Football, Fun, Winning

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• Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it. The Commerce Department's NDRI will help save lives and protect property. We will be working closely with FEMA, the Interior Department and other federal agencies, with state and local governments and with our nation's businesses.

  William M. Daley

  Weather, Two, Agency

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• Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

  Karl Schroeder

  Surprise, Predicting The Future, Foresight

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• So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Crystals, Balls, Bora Bora

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

  Branford Marsalis

  Believe, Jazz, Kind

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• I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Interesting, Fiction

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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• To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, People, Appreciate

  "The Introduction to my Newly Released Book, Physics of the Future!" by Michio Kaku, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming.

  Al Gore

  Men, Weather, Community

  "Al Gore Explains 'Snowmageddon'" by Gene J. Koprowski, www.foxnews.com. February 03, 2011.

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• If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

  Aaron Ross

  Average, Insightful, Pipeline

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