“... 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
“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“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
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
“Given the inverse relationship between predictability and uncertainty, the cost of maintaining business as usual rises significantly.” — Roger Spitz 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. — Nick Bantock 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
The government - the ultimate short-term-oriented player - cannot withstand much pain in the economy or the financial markets. Bailouts and rescues… — Seth Klarman 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
