Extrapolative Forecasting Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person. — Lissie

Each day, I count 100 times my blessings. What sacred-thanks? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child. — Criss Jami

It would be indeed unusual if it turned out that the set of orders that our mind is able to construct and accept, having as it does a deep sense of "understanding the essence of things," matches precisely the set of all possible orders to be detected in the Universe as a whole. We should admit that this is not impossible, yet it does seem highly improbable. This way of thinking, so modest in its assessment of our abilities, is probably the only way recommended, given our lack of knowledge, because we are not aware of our limitations. — Stanislaw Lem

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done. — Jon Bernthal

I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now enough to record a new set of diligently worked-upon compositions. I do trust the audience and the audiences very much. — Will Oldham

It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack. — P.G. Wodehouse

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life. — Stephen Covey

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself. — Joseph Glanvill

An' you told him what I said about a verbal contract not being worth the paper it's printed on? — Terry Pratchett

At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children. — John W. Gardner

Nothing matters if we aren't safe — Marco Rubio