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
Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
“The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great,… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money,… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the… — Michael D. Barnes Copy Share Image
...The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases… — Hardin B. Jones Copy Share Image
Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The language of North Korea is always bombastic. But what has really changed is the acceleration of their nuclear program, the likelihood… — Michael Leiter Copy Share Image
Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
It is false to say that what we don’t know can’t hurt us, especially when it comes to the Bible. If ever… — R. C. Sproul, Jr Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of… — John Donne Copy Share Image
When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And… — Orlando Patterson Copy Share Image
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The major problem for America is we're losing two wars. We're losing in Afghanistan, we're losing in Iraq. And there seems very… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
There are three basic prerequisites that almost guarantee... that a child won't have a day of poverty. If a person gets married… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
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