It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it. — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what… — Lawrence Taylor Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing… — Plato Copy Share Image
What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The future success of online social networking sites as an advertising medium depends on its acceptance as an advertising vehicle that can… — Mary Louise Kelly Copy Share Image
Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
But the thing is if you've got an hour to sit down in front of a television, then the likelihood is that… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
“Laisha had got a glimpse of the vast ocean that lay before her. She could either eatch it recede from her sight… — Anuradha Bhattacharyya Copy Share Image
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in… — Shakira Copy Share Image
[Edward Snoden] has said many times that he's willing to come back and face trial if he can be guaranteed a fair… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather. — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing… — Nick Cooper Copy Share Image
The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland. — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously. — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self-… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines. — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood… — Robert Gossett Copy Share Image
The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image