Sentences with phrase «wrong than right»

Conversely and even more so, Judge Rakoff is much more wrong than right.

You can not predict what the future climate will be, and your «models» are nothing more that guesses that are more wrong than right.

Since there are far more ways to be wrong than right, accident is not a good thing to rely upon.

From my own reading on the history of science, antagonism and skepticism are essential to good science and to scientific progress in general, and scientific consensuses are more frequently wrong than right especially when the experimental evidence is ambiguous, and impede scientific progress more often than not.

All Bickmore has done in trying to be «clever» is prove Monckton more right than wrong, and the IPCC hypothetical scenarios more wrong than right.

Closer to right than wrong / closer to wrong than right... Either way, this one is for me but also for you.

Recent shows include Margaret Lee / Emily Sunblad, Off Vendôme, Dusseldorf, New Pictures of Common Objects (with Trisha Baga, Lucas Blalock, Josh Kline and Helen Martin), MoMA PS1 and Closer to Right than Wrong / Closer to Wrong than Right, Jack Hanley Gallery.

Leaky Pandy has gotten much more wrong than right.

Of course, when all these collective buy and sell decisions are made, fund managers are more likely to be wrong than right.

Investors who try to outsmart the market more often get it wrong than right.

Adapting hit stage musicals for film is always a risky business, with far more getting it wrong than right (witness Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Nine, etc.), so give Mackintosh (the producer here), director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) and the cast full credit for commitment to the cause.

«Sitting is the new smoking,» we're told, because it purportedly increases the risk of all kinds of disease and dysfunction (a claim that appears to be more wrong than right, by the way).

A total of 387 subjects were more often right than wrong, as opposed to 186 who were more often wrong than right.

Dear Abby: Much as it pains me to publicly disagree with another attorney, the letter you published from Max D. Rynearson about the value of an IOU was more wrong than right — and your original advice to parents to get an IOU when lending money to their children was more right than wrong.

the truth is that wenger is doing more wrong than right at this very moment....

Does that mean that my mom was more wrong than right all those years she kept pushing ground turmeric on us like a miracle drug?

And since I secretly feared it might let me down in that, I made sure to like men more wrong than right for me.

But that creates more problems because experts are more often wrong than right.

It's far easier to get that wrong than right and miss out on market gains.

He has done many wrongs than his rights in my own.

Not exact matches

When a mistake is more than a minor setback, do something to make it right or otherwise provide value to the wronged party.»

That's not right or wrong, but it's just a different business than what I perceive to be venture capital.

I pulled an end run and went into the sitcom business, which worked out rather well, rather than trying to tell the world that they were wrong and I was right.

I hope to be right more than I'm wrong.

The thing with doing a startup is that it's an unusual path and one where there are far more reasons it can go wrong than can go right.

So, the logical conclusion is that Mom and Dad focused on what we got wrong rather than the 92 percent or so that we got right.

And my personal philosophy is I'd rather be optimistic and wrong rather than pessimistic and right.»

There's nothing worse than being right but having the wrong timing.

Apologizing doesn't always mean you're wrong and the other person is right; it means you value your relationship more than your ego.

Unfortunately, he is also unquestionably intelligent, courageous, and right more often than he is wrong.

Though Roland was wrong about limiting lending to companies worth less than $ 300,000, he was right about everything else: the SBA intended to limit goodwill financing to 50 percent of the total loan, up to $ 250,000.

To find out the right and wrong ways to get a bartender's attention at the bar, we went directly to the source, and more than 30 bartenders from around the world weighed in with their opinions on the matter.

«We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.»

But more than that, going into a foxhole right now seems like the wrong idea.

With more than 18 million views, this is a classic case of a marketing campaign that could have gone really wrong but went really right.

I certainly didn't predict the outcomes with precision, but given the state of things I think it's safe to say that I was much more right than wrong.

I still believe in the model of leadership I learned at West Point, which is about values, which is about choosing the harder right rather than the easier wrong, about homogeneity of character, about a leader's character is their identity.

One word that makes us happy: Progress [21:21] We grow because that helps us give more — share it with someone you love, it magnifies it [22:04] More excited about feeding one billion people than any material thing, so much more meaning when it's not just about you [22:19] The challenge is our brain: it's looking for what's wrong, because that helps you survive [22:30] Peak state = high energy, feel extraordinary, producing results is easy [22:46] Low energy state = say things and do things that hurt your relationship [23:39] Peak State = Beautiful state, Low - energy state = suffering state [24:08] Over achievers don't suffer, right?

Nothing worse than sending the wrong goods to a customer... get it right the first time so you save face and money.

If earlier this year you predicted that unemployment would climb higher than 10 % and that the market would be crushed, would you now be considered half - right or half - wrong by your followers?

Ma, a former teacher, says he always warns government leaders to also «pay attention to education,» because right now we're teaching children the wrong thing: that machines are better than humans.

Buffett says he can not reliably come up with a pinpoint value for any given long - dated option, but adds that he would «rather be approximately right than precisely wrong.»

«If you make more money when you are right than you are hurt when you are wrong, then you will benefit, in the long run, from volatility [and the reverse]» Nassim Taleb

«I can be wrong more often than I am right, so long as the leverage on my correct judgements compensates for my mistakes» Leon Levy

You need patience and conviction to be a dividend growth investor and... a Warren Buffett - like belief that it is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong!

Even though you were right more often, you were wrong often enough that you would end up losing more money than you would have with just those five correct trades.

When prospecting, remember that it's better to spend time with the wrong persona at the right company / account, than it is to spend time with the perfect persona at the wrong company / account.

These rough metrics should approximate a DCF model anyway, and if you demand a large enough margin of safety, roughly right is better than approximately wrong.

But if you look at the bible and how christians use it by picking out what parts they agree with and dismissing the horror of it as «cultural of the times» it says to me that their sense of right and wrong is more evolved than the book they claim is the final authority of right and wrong.

I was lucky enough to find the church that accepted me and my beliefs as different from the mainstream but valid and no more right or wrong than anyone else's beliefs.