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
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
“But theory rarely works in practice, and predictability has a devious sister named complexity. But” — Jurgen Appelo 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
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
“Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.” — Robert James Waller 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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