“But theory rarely works in practice, and predictability has a devious sister named complexity. But” — Jurgen Appelo Copy Share Image
The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is. — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly. — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Two other personality traits could also make more likely [Donald] Trump's use of nuclear weapons: his impulsiveness and his lack of predictability. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Acceptance doesn't mean predictability. Sex isn't always for 11 at night - - it's also 'meet at a hotel room at noon'.… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Predictability would also seem to inspire confidence that a President [Donald] Trump would refrain from deciding to respond with overwhelming force when… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Retirement had robbed Arbatov of his edge. Like most old men who live alone, he had settled into a carefully scripted daily… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security,… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability!” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed. — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
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