“Given the inverse relationship between predictability and uncertainty, the cost of maintaining business as usual rises significantly.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together.” — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
“Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.” — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability. — Mark Pincus Copy Share Image
“Some people just need a routine, and refuse to accept the consequences of predictability. In my experience, these people tend to get… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much:… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes,… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have been fascinated by predictability and frustrated by our inability to predict. I don't believe it makes sense… — Lennart Bengtsson Copy Share Image
Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes me the most nervous is that the Middle East has historically had a sense of predictability.… — Ilan Berman Copy Share Image
Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened… — Camille Copy Share Image
“Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
