Person Quote by Maria Konnikova

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology.…

— Ray Bradbury

To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic…

— Meredith L. Young-Sowers

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

— Gordon Livingston

How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this,…

— Viktor E. Frankl

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's…

— Scarlett Thomas

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social…

— Albert Bandura

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come…

— Hannah Arendt

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.

— Sophie Hannah

If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your…

— Frederick Lenz

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to…

— Zygmunt Bauman

I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they…

— Tatiana Maslany