Likelihood Quotes - Page 6

• As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

  Andrew Schneider

  Science, Men, Doctors

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• An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Different, Atoms, Hierarchy

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, Trying, Violence

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Real, Work Out

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble and a lot less predictable than a conventional job. But you do increase the likelihood of success by working as hard as you can and holding yourself to the highest standard you can muster.

  Max Bemis

  Jobs, Musician, Increase

  Source: blog.seagate.com

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• The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

  Hal Roach

  Funny, Travel, Numbers

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• It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Crazy, Book, Reading

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Issues, Humanity

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• Some people have set up sort of "gotcha" algorithms that apparently crawl through psychology articles and look for fraudulent p-values [a measure of the likelihood that experimental results weren't a fluke]. But they're including rounding errors that don't change the significance levels of the results, and they're doing it anonymously.

  Susan Fiske

  Errors, People, Psychology

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

  Charles Garfield

  Elements, Belief, Standing Out

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• I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.

  Steven Shainberg

  Stars, Independent, Film

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• Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

  Nir Eyal

  Thinking, Next, Action

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.30, Penguin

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• Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.

  Nir Eyal

  Motivation, Two, Ease

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.9, Penguin

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• But the thing is if you've got an hour to sit down in front of a television, then the likelihood is that you've probably got two hours. So why wouldn't you, if you're enjoying it not want to watch the other one? And so, this is the future. Ten episodes at once is what everyone wants, and then it's up to you how you spread those out

  Christian Cooke

  Two, Watches, Up To You

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.

  Elliott Sober

  Statistics, Ancestry, Common

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [Edward Snoden] has said many times that he's willing to come back and face trial if he can be guaranteed a fair trial, but the likelihood of that is so slim.

  Zachary Quinto

  Faces, Trials, Slim

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

  Gene Weingarten

  Real, Knowing, Identity

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.

  Nir Eyal

  Engagement, Increase, Flossing

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.18, Penguin

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• The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

  Terence McKenna

  Limits, Bangs, Tests

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• The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, Men, Ideas

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• Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Faces, Nuclear

  "The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism". "Quest for Peace: an Introduction". Book edited by John M. Whiteley, 1986.

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• The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.

  Larry Trask

  Alaska, Snow, Different

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• There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

  Rhodri Morgan

  Stitches, Next, Pope

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• Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Believe, Oil, Persian

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• The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out there, being able to commit these crimes. I want them to go to prison. But if you understand this crime and you understand what happens in the reporting of this crime and the support that a victim does or does not get, you realize that our legislation increases the likelihood that a young woman will go to the police in a timely manner and that the police will investigate and that they will be able to administer real justice in the criminal system.

  Claire McCaskill

  Real, School, Justice

  Source: www.elle.com

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