The predominant quality of successful people is optimism. . . . Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.
Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
People do make considered choices about whether they want to fight, and how, and they do so from disparate circumstances. But I think there are two important frameworks in which those choices get made. One, their degree of immiseration. The greatest predictor of who will engage in criminal activity is poverty, which tells us that the decisions people make about how unlawful they're willing to be are decisively based in their own experience of immiseration. The second framework is that when people choose to act, they inevitably act where they are.
I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.
We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.
Sometimes you meet someone, and they seem great, they seem exactly what you're thinking of for the role, and then you put a camera on them, and they freeze. And other people come to life with the camera on them. I haven't discovered any reliable predictor for that; I think you just have to try it and see what happens. And, you know, sometimes the people who freeze, if you find the right magic word to say to them, you can unlock them.
I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end
In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.
Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.
The best predictor of future events is probably past events.
I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
