Likely Quotes
2182 quotes by 1547 authors
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In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its…
— Jim Gerlach
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Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.
— Adam Grant
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Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice…
— Dean Koontz
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Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.
— George Soros
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The only thing that could hurt me is if my success encouraged me to return to my childhood fantasies of omnipotence - but that is…
— George Soros
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As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.
— Alexa Von Tobel
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Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.
— Sam Altman
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Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area…
— Timothy Geithner
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That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
— Robert Grudin
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The worst is likely to be behind us
— Henry Paulson
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Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A…
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance…
— Michael Badnarik
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Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture…
— Jack Canfield
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If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most…
— Unknown Author
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But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
— Mary Stewart
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We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because…
— Lydia Davis
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