On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false,… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price -… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.” — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is… — AronRa Copy Share Image
“If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known"… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Most of us think that we are 'better than average' in most things. We are also 'miscalibrated,' meaning that our sense of… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
